Benjamin and Wesley Turning 10!

The two boys that received my full name turned 10 this week. When Amy Lynn and I found out we were having twins, it was easy to decide on their names. We simply took the first one and named him Benjamin and the second one Wesley. As such, together they make Benjamin Wesley Kelley. (My full name)

Here is a picture of Benjamin Cole Kelley:



Here is a picture of Wesley Jacob Kelley:


They are identical but as you can tell from these pics, they are VERY different. It still blows my mind that you can have identical twins and yet, they can be as different as Washington, DC and Chapel Hill, NC. :-)

We have been away to celebrate their 10th birthday this week. The family visited Washington, DC, and these pictures were taken after we hit a little souvenir shop off one of the metro stations, whereby they both picked out gifts from their big sister, Anna Grace. She is the best big sister these boys could ever have. But I digress - this is about my twin boys.

These guys are really special. They love life, love the church, love Jesus, love sports, and can eat their weight in food. :-) I am so proud of these guys. Their potential blows my mind. I love raising twins and watching them become little men after God's own heart.

I can't believe they are 10 years old. It seems like yesterday that they were born and I was able to put their full hands through my wedding band. (They were born a month premature and weighed 5 lbs and 3 lbs respectively.

Will you pray for these guys? In light of the current series, The Shack, I never want these two pistols to glean an inaccurate view of God from the behavior of their dad. Since listening to Paul Young last week, I am tempted to write all my children a note once a year and apologize for any ways in which I have, knowingly or unknowingly, misrepresented God the Father.

Pray that they see Christ in their mother and me. Pray that they experience authentic Christianity lived out by the parents and leaders that surround them at newhope. Pray that they make wise choices and live every day of their lives for God. Pray that they can just be boys and not necessarily live in the proverbial fish bowl because they are the sons of the pastors that started and lead newhope church. As baptized believers, pray that they never leave their first love, namely Jesus.

And pray for me. I so want to raise them well. I so want them to see Christ in me. And I so want to be a man in whom they look up to and find an example to follow, as I follow Jesus.

Thanks for listening to a dad ramble on about his love, hopes, and dreams for these two special young men. I really do covet your prayers...