This title is neither my lack of spell check nor the ornery slip of a smart phone word substitution, but rather an intentional play on words.
A reminder, as we ride into the new year, return to our real work world from recent celebrations, or recall yesterdays hopeful resolutions.
He knows you still and your real life challenges, even feels the pain of those who were totally unable to celebrate the holidays because of an ailing spouse or some other grievous reality; the case with a dear friend who’s beloved is gripped by cancer.
This post is to him and to those whom I don’t know, who possibly like me 40 years ago, now endure the stabbing grief of a divorce or other life loss. I then had little hope of a real future, and worse, surrounded by friends with few answers…but God knew.
January 3,1973 He suddenly changed everything in my life and now on this 2nd day of January 2012, I celebrate the 63rd birthday of a wonderful wife whom I married on December 23, 1973, thirty-eight years ago. As well, today I celebrate with a 30-year-old daughter whom in 1970 would have seemed an impossibility in my pain, only another dream lost.
But He knew! Yes, God knew my life before I was formed in my mother’s womb, even knew me before He formed my mother! Psalm 139:1-18.
He knew you and your’s as well.
Happy Knew Your, He knows your life and holds your dreams!
He is with me when I awake the day after New Year and with you… still (18).
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About John Bost
John and his wife LaDonna have lived in Clemmons for over 16 years, along with one daughter, Summer Elizabeth Bost, who is now an Assistant Principal with the WSFC Schools. John and LaDonna have a combined service as well, of over 60 years in public and private education.
John holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Biology, a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Community Education & Resource Development as well as an Education Specialist Degree (Ed.S) in Leadership & Administration, all from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
He served seven years on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Planning Board, and has been active in various Early Childhood initiatives, the Infant Mortality Coalition, Healthy Carolinians, Assembly Terrace (HUD 202 independent living facility for seniors), Reynolda Rotary, Winston Salem First (church) as well as several Community Development Corporations, to include the hugely successful Goler Depot Street CDC in the downtown of Winston-Salem. Formerly the Chair of Leadership Winston-Salem, where he now serves as a board member, John is President and owner of Master Counsel and Associates, Inc., which offers real estate acquisition and small business development services. John is also a partner in Master Counsel Technologies, a software resale and consulting firm based in Clemmons, and Jimandi, Inc, a start-up business for waste up-cycling.
I love this! God know’s exactly who we are, what we go through and he knows our hearts so that he can work it all for our good, even when it seems like a mess or like it makes no sense.
Thank you John, A great illustration and reminder of the beauty from ashes God who sees the result and not the smoldering remains and rubble of our hopes and plans. Happy Birthday LaDonna.
We all are so blessed to have a God who understands and is there always to hold our hands even as we pursue life and the anniversaries we celebrate. May the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob celebrate this day in heaven with you!