Grandparents Day in Review: Standing on the Promises
Last Friday, we celebrated grandparents. What a humbling experience it is to stand before three generations of our Capstone families and to consider the wealth of experience, wisdom, and contributions of those who have brought us to where we are today. The school that blesses our children today stands on the shoulders of the grandparents of our children, our grandparents, and our ancestors before them. We so often think that we are self-made. That notion fades in an auditorium of grandparents and great grandparents.
Each grandparent couple I met last week represented a lifetime of promises kept. To a spouse, to a child, to a grandchild, to a community, to God. In my conversations with so many of our special guests, I was told of Godʼs faithfulness in keeping his promises. As I thanked and praised our grandparents, they deflected that thanks and praise to the God who has sustained them through his great promises. Their stories are varied and remarkable. They are a testimony to the faith, hope, and love of Jesus Christ that is at the heart of our mission at Capstone.
In essence, what I was reminded of Friday was that our families, our school, our community, stand not on their own. They stand on a legacy of promises already kept and promises we believe God will yet keep. We build our lives and the foundation for our childrenʼs lives on the promises of our faith. We believe that the truth does indeed set us free. We believe that in Christ, all things hold together. We believe that to find our lives, we have to lose them in the cause of Christ. We believe that the world offers attractive yet hollow and deceptive philosophies, but Christ offers abundant life. We stand on these promises and the witness of our forefathers. The testimony of their lives gives us the assurance that we stand on solid, unshakable ground.
May God cultivate in our children a reverence for their forefathers, that they might build their lives upon the great promises to which our ancestors bear witness.