Reign On

We helped Corey and Natasha today move into their new house. A first house is very special ; it is that much more special when you are moving in on your birthday. Corey turned twenty-nine today. Twenty nine years ago I was in the hospital birthing a very special baby boy. We missed giving out candy to the trick-or-treaters, the first favour Corey delivered upon his dad – his dad who ended up being the beneficiary of all the candy that lie in wait back at the apartment while we were welcoming our boy into the world.

If I counted back, I would probably find that Jim and I moved into our first house when I was just shy of twenty-nine. Many years have passed since then but I still feel the excitement of owning something all of my own. I watched my baby boy in the same thrall of that today. I couldn’t keep a smile off my face as my “baby boy”, now very much an adult, embraced his new kingdom.

My son is a prince. He is a prince among princes. There is no son on earth who could measure up to the joy and pleasure he has brought to my life. May his kingdom be blessed with all the wonderful treasures that I wished for him twenty nine years ago.

If you live your life well, it comes back to revisit you in the day that we had today. It sounds an echo. It sounds like an echo that resonates with the importance of...passing it on.

Corey and Natasha are building a kingdom for their two year old son, Ayden, as Jim and I were so long ago building a world for Corey at a similar time. And today was, above all else, an echo.


"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove.....but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."

I am very proud of you, my baby boy.

Reign on.

Know you are building a kingdom for the next reigning prince.