“Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”  Psalm 139:16

I came into the office this morning and told a friend that I feel like I am coming out of the fog of graduation. My son, Jake, graduated last Thursday and we have had more wonderful gatherings and celebrations than I can count. We enjoyed relishing in the outstanding character and accomplishments of he and his friends. I love that when we reach these milestone events in life, we have the privilege and honor of coming alongside our friends over dinner tables with lots of laughter, encouragement, and gifts. One of my precious friends gave me a gift as Jake’s graduation approached.

“I Wrote a Book About You” …is a book that gives you promptings to fill in blanks creating a book about someone you love. My husband, daughter, and I enjoyed taking turns filling in the blanks and creating a book about Jake. So much fun–we laughed and we cried and we were thoughtful and took our time as we penned a book about one that we adore.

I sat the book on the bar and one morning as I headed to the coffee pot, I looked over and saw the book…I wrote a book about you. I wrote a book about you. I remembered this scripture in Psalm that reminds us that He wrote about us in His book. Immediately I began to wonder, “Lord, as you wrote Jake’s story, I would have loved to see the places that made you laugh until your side hurt. It would have blessed me to see the chapters that brought a tear to your eye. I wonder if you were proud at the same paragraphs of his book that made me proud. I am his momma and I am flooded with emotion as I think about the book of his life. You are his creator and Savior…I can’t imagine the emotion that You must feel.”

The fact is that He wrote a book about you as well. He laughed. He cried. He celebrated and He was proud. He is a perfect Author. He is thoughtful about you. He enjoys suspenseful moments and He loves the places where the circumstances seemed impossible, but you trusted Him and He showed Himself faithful. He cries with you in the moments that break your heart, but when you question if you will make it through, He knows you will…and you’ll be stronger. He loves adventure and He only writes stories about overcomers.

You, my friend, are an overcomer. You are a real life hero in the story of us. We need you to live up to every word He has penned about you. He writes beautiful stories and He has written a book about you.

Live it.

My love,