A Blessing for Seniors (the HS graduate kind)

This past weekend was our Senior Sunday at church, and man!  What an amazing group we have this year to send off with our love and tears.  During church service, we honored our high school seniors and then they had a fun banquet dinner later that evening!  I wanted to document the words that I spoke over our seniors that morning in front of the church, mostly because this is HOW I FEEL about my own future and still nonexistent kids. :)

There's not even a bun in the oven yet and I've already prayed more times to God about my future kids than I can count!  

For the graduating seniors of 2019, and for my own future loves: 

You guys are SO LOVED!  By myriads of people in this room.  And by our Father.  Each one of you are HIS before you are ours.

This church body has a job to do concerning you guys, even long after your graduation transition.  We are going to be your support, your accountability, your cheerleaders, and your HOME.  We will challenge you, as you learn and grow.  We will cry with you, we will rejoice with you.  You'll never NOT belong to us.

There's also some things that we, as your church family, desire for you.  We pray that you'll be kind, over just successful.  We pray that you'll be generous.  That you'll be rooted in empathy.  And that you'll be fulfilled, more so than just "happy".  And most of all, we pray that the cross is a daily way of life.  That our God is your King, your Father, your friend, your HOPE. 

You guys are so loved and we celebrate you today!