He is Holy...

If there were someone in Cumming that I would want all of you to meet it would be my 15 year old neighbor Ashton.  I have lived in my sub division almost 3 years now and he was one of the first of my neighbors I met there.  Ashton is an autistic teenager who loves to mow grass and ride his bike.  He says some of the funniest things you have ever heard.  When we first met I was checking the mail, and he was riding his bike up the street and decides to pull over into my drive way and ask me a couple of questions.  He looks at me and says, "Do you smoke?"  I laughed and explained that I don't smoke.  He said, "Good because you will die and I don't want that to happen to you."  I laughed my head off and yet in a weird way it was one of the nicest things someone has said to me after we just met. We have grown close through the years and if there is anything that Ashton loves it is God.  He drives down the road on his bike yelling Hallelujah, God is good, GLORY, and He is Holy.  He usually comes to my house twice a week but defiantly every Sunday to ask what songs we sang at church and to tell me that God is Holy. 

I am so thankful for Ashton because I need reminded that God is Holy and that he is in control. Ashton shows me what it means to love and how to take people where they are.  I see true innocence when I talk to Ashton and I see what it means to live out Joshua 1:8.  Ashton talks about God all the time and he really wants to live a holy life.  He has no fear of what people think of him driving down the streets proclaiming that God is good and that He is Holy.  

May we live our lives just like Ashton.  May we remind each other who God is and how he loves.   

P.S Last year at Caroline's 1st birthday party Ashton got a piece of cake but he wouldn't sit down any where because there were so many people at the party.  He struggled holding his drink and eating his cake at the same time so I suggested that he set his drink down until he was ready for it.  He said, "I can't do that because someone here may steal it, and that wouldn't be good."  I hope you all get to meet Ashton some day...