![]() ![]() ![]() For those of you unaware, Dru came to us through the miracle of adoption. There has never been in our lives a time like the 40 hours after the birth of Dru. Having this little 7 pound baby in the backseat for the first time was life changing. We were a little bit down the road when she said, “Why are you driving so slowly?” I admit I was going slowly. Leaving the hospital with Josh is a memory that Linett and I often revisit. I know that becoming a parent was defining for me. As a defining moment, we must make sure we get it right. However, I hope that you will forgive me this morning for addressing this as a defining moment because for those who do have children, it is a defining moment. For some of you this is incredibly painful for you. Now, as on the day when we talked about marriage, I am well aware that not everyone has children. Everyone who is a parent indicated “having children” as a defining moment in life. I wanted to make sure that I was not forgetting about the obvious. We have since been trying to isolate other defining moments.īefore I finalized the topics for this series, I sent out an e-mail to our staff asking them for defining moments in their lives. We even talked about how historical moments are defining moments (wars, hurricanes, etc.) On Easter Sunday we talked about “The Most Defining Moment of all of History”-the resurrection of Jesus. We have talked about such topics as our births-both our physical births and spiritual births, baptism, and marriage. Text Introduction: We are in a series of messages that we are calling “Defining Moments.” Our lives are sprinkled with defining moments-moments that shape the rest of our lives, moments that are so important that the rest of our lives hang in the balance of these moments. ![]()
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