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JESSIE AND JACI

Today’s the day! Today, Jaci Jean Sievers is set to be born. Please join me in knitting spiritual booties in prayer for her today. Her mother Jessie and father Chad are the children of some of my dearest friends, and Maddy was the flower girl in their wedding.

Guess now she’ll be the ‘’flower aunt’’ of this baby, and I’ll be the dotty old friend of her dotty old grandmother, the ‘’Jean’’ honored in the baby’s middle name. Dotty!?! Check. Old!?! Well. . . . Better get some lace doilies and tea cozies out so I’ll look the part.

The name ’’Jaci’’ is pronounced like “Jasey.’’ It stands for J.C. – Jesus Christ – as well as Jessie and Chad. We think people might mispronounce it as ‘’Jackie,’’ but we’re not worried enough about it to put one of those French circumflexes underneath the ‘’c’’ to signify that it’s a soft sound. I think people will figure it out pretty fast.

And this young lady ought to be pretty fast. Her dad’s a Husker football player and her mom was a Husker basketball player and I believe still holds the all-time record for three-pointers in the Nebraska state basketball tournament. Plus she has all kinds of other athletes in her family tree, including Runtys, Sievers and more.

Because her parents are students, she has some of Maddy’s gently-used things. So if you showered Maddy a few years ago, you might be showering Jaci now.

Thanks for then, and thanks for now. And Jaci -- get ready. There are a whole lot of people just itching to get their hands on you, and SOME of them are DOTTY!

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Prayer request: We fuse together in prayer, like spiritual armor, protecting the safety of all coalition forces as they move into Fallujah for the final assault on the terror camp there. Pray for legions of guardian angels to surround them and bring them all home safe, alive and healthy. We especially lift up to you a young Navy media named Andrew, moving in to Basra to get into place for expected casualties. He has been the best friend since kindergarten of a dear friend’s son. Father, we pray Psalm 91 over Nick and all those over there. We pray that it be a swift victory with minimal casualties, and let the people rejoice to be free of those wicked mobs, and drawn to their liberators and to You, the One who sets us all free. (Proverbs 29:2)