Chandler, for the record, I had to petition your mom @alisharparker a bit to get approval on trying for a 3rd kid. We already had 2 amazing (yet tiring) minions 👦🏽👧🏽 and we were starting our initial descent into a family of 4. The landing gear was down! 🛬
But something felt incomplete. After prayer, tequila and a trip to Cabo we decided to go for it. ✊🏽🔥😘 (I know, TMI)
Now we can’t imagine being the Parker family without you. You went nameless for days in the hospital while we stared at your newborn eyes, brainstorming and polling for the perfect name because you are our perfect girl.
Happy 1st birthday Chandler Grace!! 🎂 Go and light up the world with God’s love like you’ve done for us. 🕯
If a picture is worth a thousand words then this one is worth a million prayers. 🙏🏾 🙏🏾🙏🏾 Just when I wish God would tell me his plans so I could “help” them along, he reminds me that faith and certainty can’t coexist. If I can do it on my own, it’s too small. If I can afford it, it’s not worth much. But if I can trust Him with it - all of it - the outcome becomes secondary to my obedience.
So even when I fail, I do it well. 💪🏽When I doubt, it still works out. 🙌🏽 Not because I tried, because I trusted. It’s an unreasonably backwards way to serve a family, succeed at work, grow a career or change the world. But it’s the most powerful lesson I learned in 2018 as a father, husband and leader.
After the year @alisharparker 👸🏽 and I had it would be typical to brag about all we accomplished. 🔥 But since we both know better, I’ll simply say, “Thank you God for unrealistic forgiveness, bottomless grace and wreckless amnesia that loves me exactly as I am.” ❤️ Ain’t nuthin’ better! Get some!!
