A Surprise Visit!!!

It was Saturday night. We were all seated around the dinner table and had just finished praying when there came a rap on the front window. Most of us jumped and several voices cried, "It's probably Uncle Paul!"( A close family friend who often visits.) Daddy opened the door and a voice, we all knew well said " It's the Brimlows!" and Uncle Daniel and three of his children stepped in the doorway! ( We haven't seen him in a year, as their family has been in South America.)

Anna, Daniela and I......

Uncle Daniel and Daniel: this is the man who Daniel, my brother, was named after.....

Mama and Uncle Daniel......


Sharing the goodness of the Lord....

The couch people: Daniela and I listening to Natey and Joshy. ( If you look in the back there you can see Timothy and Nathaniel Brimlow having a stare down....)

Who is Uncle Daniel? Daniel Brimlow, his full name, was the young man who went and knocked on Mama's door, when she was little, and asked Grandma's permission to take Mama, along with her siblings, to Sunday School where they could learn about Jesus. Grandma, not a christian at the time, told us that she just had peace in her heart about this stranger and gave her consent! Through his faithful example and role to her as a godly adopted father, Mama was introduced to what a real Christian is. His whole family adopted Mama into their family, spiritually and we all have grown up knowing the Brimlows as family. That's why we call Him Uncle Daniel! (His is brother Uncle Paul, the one I mentioned earlier!)

Daniela, his oldest daughter, 19, holding Timothy.......

Anna, Daniela and Nathaniel, or Nathan sitting on the couch with the famous...Uncle Paul. (Mama wanted them to see our Sunday School/ SWORD folders and she "just so happened" to find mine first!)

Uncle Daniel, looking at Mama's folder....

We had a really special time of fellowship, sang some songs and prayed. I am so grateful for that evening and it was one I'll never forget! What joy to have family in Christ!!!

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. (KJV)

Mathew 18:20