Our Big Brother

Dear Loved Ones,

God bless you, your loved ones and your ministries this week!

Do you have a loved one who has acheived high honors!

Our older brother. David, continues to make us proud at every turn.  This time we all got to go to MSU to see him receive an Honory Doctorate in Humanities and deliver a speech at commencement.  We are all bursting our buttons with pride.

Being the younger sibling of a brilliant philanthropist has not always been easy, especially in school when teachers expected the same academic acheivement and honorable character as our older brother, but as hard as it was, it was a blessing.  He inspired us to reach for the greater good in our work and charity to others.

It would be easy to feel like we are less in comparison to him, but time and life have taught us to simply be proud of him and celebrate his acheivements without diminishing our own.  We are a unified group of siblings who cherish one another, even though we tease hard.  We can be happy for one another without feeling badly about ourselves.

The dinner we celebrated was great fun, with delicious food, fine wines, and abundant laughter.  We retired to finely decorated hotel rooms that were provided by the university and met for breakfast the next morning.  Parting was such sweet sorrow.

When I came home, our house was cluttered and I had to clean it right away.  Returning to normal life after living in an idyllic world for 24 hours took a little time.  But it was lovely to come home to a sweet husband and two beautiful teens who make good choices.

Now it is five days later.  We have had a magical time cutting and decorating our Christams tree, especially considering that it is our daughter's first Christmas.  We snuggled on the couch under a blanket to watch "A Christmas Story" which is my favorite holiday movie.  Phoebe sang in a Christmas Choir concert which was glorious.  We all went back to work or school and the house is cluttered again.

It's time to recreate the magic of our home at the holidays, clean, well decorated, with delicious scents coming from the kitchen, and Nat King Cole singing "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..."

Love, Sue