Father's Feast

Kyle wrote a great note about Beau for Father's Feast at his school:

The quality that I love about Beau is his adventurous spirit. Beau loves action. Now, this could be wrestling, riding his scooter, sword fighting… He also loves to work outside. He is very good at weeding, and digging, and raking. He can also turn a screwdriver and a wrench, and can even pick out the right tool for the job. As reported to us by his Nana and Papa while watching him and his sister and their two cousins- also a boy and a girl, Beau is on a mission. The girls were busy “nesting” on top of a park big-toy, making house with delicate piles and placings of leaves and twigs while the boys were whacking on trees with big sticks. On hearing this I thought, “Surely he’s not a destroyer. Well, he does like to demolish things. No, that’s not who Beau is.” And then it came to me, “Beau was made to conquer.” This is a much more positive trait than “Destroyer”. A conqueror protects his family and loves and sticks up for his friends. And Beau is learning to conquer the anger that is fighting him in his heart and let God’s patience live there instead.
Beau’s name means “beautiful” or “handsome”, which he obviously is. His first and second names together mean “Beautiful Hope”. I know this might sound sissy, but it’s quite the contrary. “Beautiful Hope” reminds me of Jesus, our beautiful hope of salvation when He conquered sin and death, rescuing us back to God the Father.