15 years ago today, you made a grand entrance into our lives at Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colorado Luke James!! We were so excited for your arrival, and our lives were forever changed that wonderful morning!!! I taught you about the love of Jesus from a very young age, and you caught on so quickly! There were actually times in your young life, when I found the broken part of me feeling a little jealous of your love for Him.....but you taught me how to love deeper myself, as I watched your love for him in action. You always had a strong sense of right and wrong, and a charming way of keeping your own Mama accountable to the Holy God that you love so dear. I miss you all of the time, Luke......I think about you often, and I remember the legacy that your life left the world down here. You made everyone who ever met you smile!! You made some people mad, too.....with all of your innocent childlike preaching of the Gospel of Jesus....asking strangers everywhere we went if they knew the Jesus that you did.......and telling them how very much He loved them, too!!! I know that some of them will one day be personally thanking you in Heaven for sharing that with them!! It's not so bright and funny since you left, because, boy did you ever make us LAUGH!!! We just keep on going day by day.....longing for the day that we will all see you again!!! God's eternal promises keep me motivated to do good for others while I am here, and to remind people of you, and all you did that was so good!! I don't know the number of my days down here, nor do I know when Jesus is returning to catch up the ones that are here, who are waiting for that Glorious Day. I don't know how long I have until our reunion, since none of us knows when Jesus is going to appear in the clouds of Heaven to take us all home......but I will wait patiently.....and I will keep running the race to the finish! I will LOVE like every day is my last one here....just like you did, my precious son!! Until we meet again......and I get to see my Jesus face to face like you have......keep all of Heaven laughing with JOY until I get there!! Happy Birthday in Heaven Luke!!!!! I bet the party is HUGE!!!!
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
"For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord."