Happy 50th Birthday Bofriend!!

This is my man! 
 At 50 years old he's still got it. 

Charlie is my wild man. 

Everything he does he does full on, full speed ahead.

My man works hard and he plays hard.  

My very favorite thing about my wild man is the fact that he loves 

Jesus.

  Something happened to him in Uganda a few years ago, and he has a flame in him that I pray never goes out.  

He learned how to love "the least of these" and he learned the power of prayer.

Matthew 25:38-40

English Standard Version (ESV)

38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,[a] you did it to me.’

My wild man has always been a good guy and he has always believed in God and cared for people, but now he

 LOVES like the WILD man that he is.  

My man is a warrior.

  He has a fist full of arrows, and a full quiver. (well, not TOTALLY full...always room for more)

  :)

  He is a warrior for his family and his friends and he is a warrior for the children God has put in his life.  

He takes care of  kids from all over the world, not just the ones in our home, but he takes care of several kids living in

 Uganda, and in Ethiopia.

Psalm 127:4-5

The Message (MSG)

3-5 

Don’t you see that children are God’s best gift?

    the fruit of the womb his generous legacy?

Like a warrior’s fistful of arrows

    are the children of a vigorous youth.

Oh, how blessed are you parents,

    with your quivers full of children!

Your enemies don’t stand a chance against you;

    you’ll sweep them right off your doorstep.

This verse cracks me up because I would challenge an enemy to try to get past our doorstep and to Charlie in this house.

He would have to get through all the kids and their stuff first.

 He would first have to trip and fall over 500 toys and then step on a few stray legos

 (that hurt like heck when you step on them) 

and then he would have to fight off all the kids trying to hang on their Dad, 

or if it was night time the enemy would have to sort through the pile of sleeping bodies to find him, 

and if he could get to him, then....he would have NO LUCK waking Charlie up.  

The man sleeps as hard as he works.

    Our joke has always been that Charlie can never retire; he's too hyper, and retirement would kill him, and if it didn't, I would. 

 (just joking...kinda..kinda not) 

  Let's just say......it's best to keep us busy. 

 Even when we vacation, we keep a pretty fast pace and we don't spend a lot of 

"alone time". 

I used to try to push for it, thinking it was the "thing" to do, and then I realized it was boring. 

 It wasn't "us".  

It's funny how we have always said in a "joking" way, that we could never be left "alone" for too long, and Charlie could never "retire", because he would self destruct. 

 Now I believe God put that in our hearts because He knows Charlie better than anyone.

 He abundantly blessed him with lots of kids, and no money to retire on, but a strong body to keep working.

Happy Birthday Bofriend!

You rock my world everyday!!!!