By Leaps & Bounds

Someone commented to Jen today that they couldn't imagine her having 3 kids in diapers. So, Jen went through some pictures from "those days" & sent them to the aforementioned "someone" (identified as tAS from here on out).

(Totally unrelated side note: isn't "aforementioned" a GREAT word?)

I walked up to Jen as she was finishing the e-mail to tAS, & she showed me some pictures from way-back-when.

Hosanna was 2 and change, still had her long-&-getting-longer hair.

Faith was 18 months-ish, with the little water-spout-style hairdo people do when the hair is too short to do anything else with.

Leili was an infant, laying on Mommy's lap with almost no hair, totally oblivious to everything... As a newborn should be.

Wow! Suffice it to say that the difference between the girls from then to now is amazing (they're 8,7, & 6 now)!

But, for some reason, Jen hasn't changed all that much. (She'll probably appreciate me saying that when she reads this... Score one brownie point for me!)

The girls have changed a TON (it's been 6 years), but Jen hasn't (it's ONLY been 6 years).

I was spending some time today with one of the guys I disciple, & I had the same experience.

In the last several months, he's grown SO much that his "spiritual portrait" has TOTALLY changed. I've grown during our time together, too, but my change pales in comparison to all the growth-related changes I've seen him go through.

But that's what discipleship is all about... Growing.

By leaps & bounds!