Third Annual L.I.F.E. Day

March 1, 2013

3rd Annual David Nathaniel

LIFE (Leave an Impact for Eternity) Day

Well, friends, I haven't completely fallen off the face of the earth. I am still here, and I want to say "THANK YOU" to my faithful followers who are reading this post! 

Over the next week or so our family will be remembering David Nathaniel's small but powerful life by Leaving an Impact For Eternity (L.I.F.E.), and we welcome you to join us in our effort to bring LIFE to others.For 2013, our family's theme verse is Isaiah 1:17. 

"Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause." 

In January, we began supporting two orphans in a Kenya, Anon and Millicent. For David's birthday, Benjamin and Caleb are making something special to send to these precious children.

Our family is also getting involved with an organization called Wellspring Living. Wellspring Living's mission is to confront the issue of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation through awareness, training, and treatment programs for women and girls. Wellspring desires for these young women to see God’s love and hopes that they will want to explore a relationship with Him for themselves. 

If you would like to join us in David's L.I.F.E. celebration, here is how you can participate:

1. Sometime around David's birthday (March 1st), do something to Leave an Impact For Eternity. It can be for a stranger, a friend, a family member, etc. You can do one thing, or several things. For some ideas, click here.


2. Come back to this blog and leave a comment letting us know how you celebrated David's birthday with us (tell us about your act of LIFE), or email me your act of LIFE along with a picture, if you have it.

Colossians 3:12-14 has been our guide for the past two years in remembering David. It says, “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”

When we, as believers, “put on” this type of life, we are inviting the world around us to live a new way, an eternal way. The invitation is not to embrace a new ethic but to embrace Jesus that offers this new life (Col 3:1). So, in celebration of David’s 3rd Annual LIFE Day, our goal is to “put on” this kingdom of God mindset so that we might leave an eternal impact.

If you would like to spread the word about our LIFE celebration, please feel free to copy our invitation at the top of this post and put it on your blog, or link this page to your Facebook or Twitter account. Thank you for remembering the life of our son, David Nathaniel, with us.