His Masters. 4.0 GPA. Top 15% of all who have ever..in history..taken the Praxis exams. While interning full time at a local high school. While working part time at a local fast food restaurant (some of the hardest work you can do, actually). While being a sleep deprived new father who (I can personally testify) would get up in the wee hours with his son at least once almost every night, while studying for his Masters, while interning, while working...you get the idea.
We are very proud.
Grace = high achievement. Grace has never been, nor will it ever be, an excuse for laziness or low achievement. In fact, a proper understanding of this doctrine (this way, truth, this life!)....a proper understanding of - an encounter with - the God of All Grace will ultimately motivate you to outwork and out-perform the performance-based. Because you care for the people God has placed in your life. And because you know you are fully accepted if you never achieved a thing. And because it isn't you, it is the grace of God - something the performers just don't (yet) have the faith to walk in.
The unlimited, abundant, abounding-to-you grace of God!
I'm so blessed to be able to say, honestly and frankly, that my family is well grounded in the grace and love of God...and every single member of my family has a well above average work ethic. We have found our identity in Christ Jesus, and a very hard day's work, to be completely compatible lifestyles. It is our understanding of who we are in Christ that enables us to do our stuff with all our might. My husband, both daughters, both sons, both sons-in-love...even the grandson will not stop working for something he wants badly enough.
He gets it from his daddy, I'm sure....
Justin, we are so intensely, crazy-proud of you! I am privileged to call you a "son".
4 comments:
WOOO HOOO!!! GO JUSTIN!! We, too, are so incredibly proud of Justin and Hannah. They have weathered this past year with MUCH grace. Such an example to all. And now, the 'fruit' of the labor...MASTERS DEGREE!! Oh yeah!! : )
PS...LOVELOVELOVE the pictures!! : )
What a season of life, full of excitement, full of newness, full of joy! Congrats Justin and Hannah, we love you guys! Thanks for sharing the pictures Sheila. Love you all,
Kelly
It does my heart so good to see a young man that loves the Lord, his family and is such a hard worker! I am proud to call Justin my brother in Christ. Any school, any student will be so blessed to have Justin be a part of their life. Justin has started something that will touch and change people for generations to come! Be blessed ! praying for you and family always!
Congrats!
Vickie e
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