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Found - the Favor of the Fire - Part Two

Intro - Through The Eyes of an Old Flame There is a point in family life when it's possible to go from "having kids" to having "a lot of kids".  It happens, usually, between child number three and child number four.  Three kids is normal. Lots of families have three kids and no one thinks twice of it.  If, however, they are over-achievers and decide to have one more child, people no longer say that they have kids.  They say they have "a lot of kids".  I was the member of our family who put us over that line from kids to a lot of kids.  I'm the fourth child. Things happen when you have a lot of kids.  Part and parcel to multiple children is the unfortunate likelihood of misplacing them at times.  You know... kind of just forgetting where you've left them.  I know this.  I was left at church three times before I was five years old.  Don't panic - my dad was the Pastor so they were bound to come back and find me eventually.  (I didn't

Through the Eyes of An Old Flame - Intro

In the six months since I've been back home, I have managed to do one thing I'd never done in 20 years of ministry - I officiated a wedding.  My cousin married her high school sweetheart last month and it was a joy to participate in the ceremony that brought them together.  The groom told my mom he's worked 30 years to get that ring on her finger - not literally, but it was his way of saying he'd always loved her all these years.  Cue the movie theme music to swell and the credits to roll on their "happily ever after".  (Or at least that's what the Cinderella-lover in me finds appropriate.) There's just something about the love of an old flame, isn't there? It says, "nothing about your life has diminished my love for you."  It erases years, distance, mistakes, laughlines.  It loves with the purity of a new love never gone wrong, never hurt, never separated.   Something in us needs to believe in that kind of love - not just in romance, b