{"id":22176,"date":"2025-05-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=22176"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:18:15","slug":"am-i-your-favorite-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=22176","title":{"rendered":"Am I Your Favorite?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Check out those two! Doing what we did so many times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is the big day. My youngest grandchild, Bryson, walks across the graduation stage — and just like that, I\u2019m feeling all the feels. Please bring on the Kleenex!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one? He\u2019s been something special. Maybe it\u2019s because he\u2019s the caboose of our grandkid train, or maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve had the privilege of being his \u201cNana care\u201d in Seattle, Austin or wherever life called me. Either way, he\u2019s had a hold on my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryson has always been his own man. Confident, humble, kind, a little funny (okay, a lot), and perfectly content in his own skin. He\u2019s the guy who would still hold Nana\u2019s hand when we sat side-by-side. Be still my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there\u2019s Panda Express. Our after-school tradition — orange chicken and rice, “the usual.” We’d swing by nearly every day after school. On Tuesday, we went back one more time — same order, same smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The manager remembered us and surprised us with dessert treats! (She tried recruiting him to work for her, but wrestling, workouts, and honors classes won that match.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These moments — simple, sacred — are what I\u2019ll carry with me long after the cap and gown are tucked away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryson reminds me of Isaiah 66:2:
“These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my Word.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s God\u2019s kind of graduate. That\u2019s God\u2019s kind of child. And here\u2019s the kicker: God\u2019s favor isn\u2019t just for Bryson. Or me. Or you. He doesn\u2019t rank us. He\u2019s not stingy with His affection. He\u2019s wild about all His kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Max Lucado beautifully says:
“If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yes — maybe Bryson is one of my favorites. But so is every single one of my grands. And I think that\u2019s just how God sees us, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So today, whether you\u2019re graduating, cheering from the stands, or just reheating leftover Panda Express, feel the favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s crazy about you. He made you His. And you, my friend, are His favorite, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out those two! Doing what we did so many times! Today is the big day. My youngest grandchild, Bryson, walks across the graduation stage — and just like that, I\u2019m feeling all the feels. Please bring on the Kleenex! This one? He\u2019s been something special. Maybe it\u2019s because he\u2019s the caboose of our grandkid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22180,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176\/revisions\/22180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}