Celebrating Micaiah

An excerpt from Dad's message to Micaiah, 
celebrating her 18th birthday last December ...

We have spent the last 10 years attempting to provide a culture within our home that encourages the pursuit of wisdom.  The classes that have challenged you and the work that has sometimes pushed you to tears was for the purpose of pushing you towards wisdom.  But as Solomon teaches us, wisdom is a gift.  The biggest mistake we can make is thinking that if we gain enough wisdom we will always have the answers.  But Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, tells us that most of what happens to us is inexplicable, incomprehensible and out of control.  Everything is a gift from God.  Trying to understand what God will do is utter foolishness.  All we can hope to do is know this and love Him, trust Him.   So we will follow Solomon’s advice to eat, drink, and be joyful, and we will do it together because He has given us this time.  Our past is full of wonderful memories, and I am confident what He has in store in the unknown future is even better.  But why worry about that now?  This is the day we have been given.   

It happens that fast!

Rachel Micaiah Lopez