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Happy 15^th Birthday Son!  This is a significant age.  A lot of decisions will be made in the next few years that will affect your whole life.  I know we tease you about how we do not believe in “teenagers”.  We’ve always said that you will be considered a boy until you prove to be a man.  However, you are well on your way to becoming a man.  My prayer is that you continue on the path you are already on to becoming a strong man of God.  The Lord has gifted you in many areas.  God has given you a creative mind.  Use it for His glory.  He has given you a tender and compassionate heart.  Serve others and you will be like Jesus.  You are a natural leader.  I pray you use this gift to point others to God.  “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity”1Timothy 4:12. 

It blesses your father’s and my heart to see God molding and shaping you.  It thrills our hearts when we catch you reading your Bible to your brother or showing affection to your sister when you think no one is looking.  And it thrills our hearts to be able to call you our first born.  We love you, son!  Keep looking to the Lord.  Trust Him with all your heart.  Serve Him all the days of your life.  He will never fail you.

 “Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment,”  Ecclesiastes 11:9.