Sterling Brown

I am a walking picture of diversity…

Dad is black and mom is white.  (Yes, if you’re already singing “ebony & ivory” by Joe Piscopo & Eddie Murphy as Frank Sinatra & Stevie Wonder, don’t worry – I am too)

My wife is white and my children are… well, very white looking.  What’s the deal with that???

My first two favorite albums (yes albums…the 12″ vinyl kind) were “The Sugar Hill Gang” and “Kiss Alive II.”  So you can imagine how excited I was when Run DMC & Aerosmith first merged Rap & Metal like the first Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercials.

I used to break dance… that is, until I learned the acoustic guitar. Now I can’t dance anymore…

Anyway, I’m doing a message tomorrow on diversity.

Let me know what diversity means to you?

So Myssi and Rita have joined a team from InFocus Church going to South Africa for a week.  There’s no better way to get in touch with your own insufficiency as a parent than to have your wife leave the house for a week.  I am totally outnumbered, and I’m quickly reminded that whoever said “God won’t give you more than you can handle” was completely wrong!  It’s funny how laundry and dishes can pile up so fast.

But the good news is his “strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9), so I am glad today that when I am impatient with my children his grace is there.  When I am in need of encouragement and there’s no one around but the crickets outside, his grace is there.  I’m praying that God will move on the people of South Africa while my wife and daughter in the Lord are going into all the world to preach the good news.  But I’m also praying that God will move on my heart in this time I have with him and my children like never before.  And I will continue to boast in my weaknesses, because I know his grace will be there.