To Be" KNOWN" Is To Be "LOVED"

To be known is to be LOVED... 

Chris 

                          

I love how he loves Jesus... it inspires me to... I love his passion for the church and watching God use him in mighty ways... I love how he can't stand for his food to touch and that he gets disgruntled when he doesn't have your undivided attention... I love it that "Acts of Service" is his primary love language and science-fiction can grip his attention for hours... I love the humility he operates within when it comes to his gifting and the assured confidence he exudes when he knows he's right... I love it that he's open about his DISLIKE for cats and hanging pictures on the walls... he is "slightly" scared of bats (he he) and needs my protection... and I love that he loves me JUST the way God created me... 
He is known and he is loved... 

Marybeth



I love her smile and her quirky sense of humor... I love how she becomes the character when she reads a book and knows EVERY word to EVERY song... I love how she only embraces your hugs when she is in the mood and that she tenderly loves those who aren't easily accepted by others... I love it that she looks just like her dad and yet she is an old soul just like me... I love it that we are total opposites and RESPECT each other for it... I love it that she is comfortable in her own skin and knows the one who created her... I love her love for dance and her determination to always be her best... I love how she respectfully allows me to be her mom before being her friend... I love it that she listens yet voices her opinion... I secretly love it that she calls me "tabby-cat" in a defiant kind of way and I LOVE being her mom...

She is known and she is loved...

Topher

I love it that God created him "special"... I love how he kisses with a strong embrace and that everyone gets to come to his birthday... I love his attachment to his stuffed animal "doggy"... I love it that he watches Shrek in Spanish and that he wishes he had REAL power in his hands... I love his passion to learn and his confidence that he can do anything... I love it that he doesn't like to be called little and that he thinks I'm the BEST mom he's ever had... I love how he corrects your speech when you are trying to correct his... I love how he eats enough for 10 yet never seems to get full... I love how music sets his soul on fire and life is abundantly- simple to him... I love how God thought enough of him to make him like He did...

He is known and he is loved...

Grace

I love how strong she is... I love how life is at her finger-tips and how she lets her imagination run wild... I love to hear her play school through the crack in her bedroom door and watch her passionately play basketball... I love how her sense of fashion is edgy yet her heart is pure before the Lord... I love that she is so much like me that we often need time-outs from each other... I love how "RIGHT-NOW" she wants to live with me forever and that she desires to let God lead her life always... I love how she thinks that moles are gross and that you should always smell good... I love the way she loves me and the way she admires me... I love her soul and everything about her smile... I love her compassion for people and her desire to help others at all times...

She is known and she is loved...

To be loved is to be known and to be known is to be loved...


YOU ARE KNOWN... YOU ARE LOVED...


O Lord you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
For you formed my inward parts; knitted me together in my mothers womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:1-4,13-14