To our daughter:
The amazing thing about following where the Lord leads you is never knowing the blessings He has in store. During our life together, we have met some amazing people. Just God-loving-spirit-filled folks. They became our family when we lived so far away from our own. One day, you will undoubtedly look back through the scrapbooks and read the blog to learn all about these wonderful friends. Each has played a significant part in our lives. They loved us, supported us, prayed for us and were helping hands when we were in need.
Through all those years, even without our ever realizing it, the Lord was preparing a way to bring you to us. We waited for you for many years. Prayed and hoped. Waiting for the child we had always dreamed about was such a challenge. One that we, at times, did not face well. But the Lord was faithful. He had put us on a path years before that would ultimately bring us closer to Him and give us you.
During those years, two of those wonderful people I met through my job and they took such good care of your dad and me. In big and small ways. They became a part of our journey to you just as all of our other friends and family had become. We were humbled by their desire to join us and awe-struck to see how God had laid out this path so many years earlier.
As we dreamed about the daughter we were praying for, a beautiful name was inspired by these two amazing people. Certainly, we loved the way the name sounded but more importantly we loved what the name meant to us.
Your name is a reminder of God’s faithfulness to us. Even while we waited for you, we watched the Lord work around us using our journey to you for greater things in His kingdom. We realized almost a full year before you were conceived how the Lord had put all the pieces of the puzzle together years before and so we began to think of our little girl by this precious name.
For your life, we pray the Lord will send you friends like those in our life who have shown us love and compassion. We pray that like those you are named after, you will be generous to all of God’s children both those you love and those you have never and may never meet. We pray you will be loyal to your friends and keep them close like family. We pray God will send you a husband with whom you will find a true companion in every sense of the word. But most importantly our prayer for you is that you will come to know the Lord and follow His path for your life.
We love you very much, Aubrey Kate.
Mom and Dad
The amazing thing about following where the Lord leads you is never knowing the blessings He has in store. During our life together, we have met some amazing people. Just God-loving-spirit-filled folks. They became our family when we lived so far away from our own. One day, you will undoubtedly look back through the scrapbooks and read the blog to learn all about these wonderful friends. Each has played a significant part in our lives. They loved us, supported us, prayed for us and were helping hands when we were in need.
Through all those years, even without our ever realizing it, the Lord was preparing a way to bring you to us. We waited for you for many years. Prayed and hoped. Waiting for the child we had always dreamed about was such a challenge. One that we, at times, did not face well. But the Lord was faithful. He had put us on a path years before that would ultimately bring us closer to Him and give us you.
During those years, two of those wonderful people I met through my job and they took such good care of your dad and me. In big and small ways. They became a part of our journey to you just as all of our other friends and family had become. We were humbled by their desire to join us and awe-struck to see how God had laid out this path so many years earlier.
As we dreamed about the daughter we were praying for, a beautiful name was inspired by these two amazing people. Certainly, we loved the way the name sounded but more importantly we loved what the name meant to us.
Your name is a reminder of God’s faithfulness to us. Even while we waited for you, we watched the Lord work around us using our journey to you for greater things in His kingdom. We realized almost a full year before you were conceived how the Lord had put all the pieces of the puzzle together years before and so we began to think of our little girl by this precious name.
For your life, we pray the Lord will send you friends like those in our life who have shown us love and compassion. We pray that like those you are named after, you will be generous to all of God’s children both those you love and those you have never and may never meet. We pray you will be loyal to your friends and keep them close like family. We pray God will send you a husband with whom you will find a true companion in every sense of the word. But most importantly our prayer for you is that you will come to know the Lord and follow His path for your life.
We love you very much, Aubrey Kate.
Mom and Dad
LOVE THE NAME! And I love the precious note to your beautiful daughter! God is sooooo good!!!
ReplyDeleteSo, so sweet! LOVE her name!!
ReplyDeleteOh dear, this one made me cry...it's so beautiful! She will be blessed!
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