Little Muscician

As I highlight our kids and their unique God given gifts, Samuel would definitely earn the title of "little musician."  He has always loved music and is the only child who consistently sings with gusto each night during our family worship time.  He really enjoys playing the piano and is excelling in that area as well.  For the past couple of months, Jonathan has been song writing and now is in the production phase with a new album.  Samuel has been fascinated with the recording process and many days you can find him just sitting alongside his dad watching and learning.  This boy, turning young man looks up to his dad so much and wants to be just like him (which is dually noted that the apple did not fall far from the tree with our firstborn).

Samuel had a rough patch of about 2 months where he was having a lot of anxiety about going to school in the mornings.  He would have difficulty in eating breakfast, sometimes even getting sick and would have tears many of days before heading out the door.  As we have encouraged him and directed him towards casting his cares upon the Lord and given him promises to cling to from God's word, we have seen how this trial has strengthened him.  For two weeks now, he has joyfully gone to school without talk or demonstration of anxiety.  It was about two weeks ago that he came home from school and said, "I am going to write a song to help me stop worrying"  About a half hour later he presented us with his first song.  Samuel and his dad are going to work together to compose the music, but for now you can hear Samuel sing his song entitled "Stop Worrying".