Differences

The difference between Harrison and Gavin is stark.  I'm not sure there could be more opposite.  It makes parenting that much more challenging.  What encourages one disables the other and what is easy for one seems impossible for the other. As for Cannon, his young personality is still presenting itself, but, so far, he definitely is filling the name of Cannon quite well.  It really gives teeth to the idea that we're born with our personality. 

When kicked off electronics this is what Harrison does in his free time.....

 And what Gavin does in his free time.


Over the years I've often thought about what Father Charlie said in church one day--how the family we are born into is one of the things we don't choose in life, it's chosen for us.  And instead of begrudging our family for what it is or isn't, we should ask ourselves why it is God put us where he did.  What purpose do we serve to the people that make up our family?  As my boys grow older and their differences more vast, I can see where it might be easy for them to drift apart. My prayer for them is that their brotherly and family bond makes them see they are greater than the sum of their parts.  Meaning, if they have each other's back, tackling the setbacks together, they will go so much further....

Because, after all, the ties that bind them are stronger than their differences could divide.

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