Happy Birthday Lydia!

Today is my daughter Lydia's 17th birthday! Wow! This year has flown by so fast. 17 just seems so much older than 16 - although she's still just as sweet and she better not have been, well, you know the saying.

Maybe it's a year of driving, maybe it was the prom, maybe it was visiting colleges, but whatever it is, life is changing. And that's okay, change is inevitable and yes, change is good.

Lydia, I love you! You are the best daughter a daddy could ever have! I've discovered that growth and change simply magnify who you already are. And you, Lydia, are a truly beautiful, kind, sweet, funny, caring, Godly young woman. Happy Birthday!