I should admit some significant personal mile markers that the last few weeks included... that my family and I graciously celebrated: my wife Christe and I had our 5th Anniversary at the end of August, and my 40th Birthday was last weekend.

At Kanakuk Kamps in the Missouri Ozarks, a Christian youth camp where I worked for many summers, we often tell kids on their birthdays, "I'm glad you were born!" Interestingly in my case, as you probably know, it's remarkable that I didn't die before either of these celebrations... that I made it past my birthday 10 years ago!

So I walk today in humble gratitude to God for His miraculous rescue and gracious provision of my sugar sweet wife and my adorable children.

He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1:17