For those of you who don't know him, you might have seen him and thought to yourself, "hmmm, that guy sure looks like Santa Clause!" and you would be right! :) Some of you may even have pictures of him with your kids who go to Bright Beginnings and not realize who he is...but, that's my Pops!
At any rate, the middle of December my entire family went to Disney World for a couple of days.
While this, of course, was our Christmas gift, my Pops decided we just had to have "something" to open as a gift. Well, when my brother and 2 sisters and myself opened up our gifts from Pops on Christmas Eve, we all received the same thing...a photo album along with our normal yearly silver dollar with Santa on it. But when you opened it up, it was a lot of pictures and stories typed out from my Pops. It started when he was a child. There were pictures of the houses he lived in, street signs, schools he attended, places of employment, places he hung out at when he was a teenager, etc. It was one of the coolest things I have ever received!
Last night my small group finished Crazy Love by Francis Chan. The end of up asked us this question: what legacy are you going to leave? While my Pops is far from perfect, as are we all, he helped us this past Christmas know him all the more and know who he was, what he did, and where he came from. One day, when I have kids, I hope to do the same thing. And I'll hand them my Pops as well...so that they are not to forget about who their Pops was either! I love ya Pops! You're the best. Happy Birthday!!!
Keith Wages
Children's Pastor
kwages@fbcloganville.org
770.466.4250 ext. 246
