Schaeffer

Schaeffer Emet Calk arrived 4 weeks early on April 14, 2010. He was named after philosopher, theologian, and author Francis Schaeffer (who you can read more about here: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer ). His middle name comes from the Hebrew word for truth, which is often paired with the pronoun El in the Bible to create El Emet (God of Truth). But enough of the particulars... After a short stay in the hospital (The Best are Born at Baylor) he came home and has since begun to enrich our lives beyond reckoning. I feel that I have grown more in the last 5 weeks than I have in the entirety of my life. God is already using him in our lives, making us more malleable to His hands. So much, so that if the world were to end tomorrow little Schaeffer would have made it a better place. Soon after his birth Leslie and I decided upon a verse that we hope and pray will embody his life. Now, I ask you to join us in praying this prayer for him. Leslie and I are not so proud to think that we can raise Schaeffer on our own and without any help. That's where you, our friends and family, come in. So please continue to walk with us...

Hebrews 13:20,21: Now may the God of peace who puts all things together, makes all things whole, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, now put you together, provide you with everything you need to please Him, and make us into what gives Him most pleasure, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.