This blog is one that I could spend ages writing if i went into all the details, so I want to ask for your participation at the end. To those of you who know my father, this blog will be of no surprise to you. “mmmmmmyelllo?!” That is the response you’ll get if you call the Bowmans’ home phone. Stay around him too long and he’ll be sharing his ridiculous ideas of “the future” with you like ‘Smellovision’. But this isn’t anything new. I played under his and and Joey Jackson’s teaching in little league baseball and was told on multiple occasions to “lay out for that one” after a foul ball was hit behind the fence. He has a knack for making people laugh and developing friends. He brings casual friends together in unity.
Aside from all his quirks and hilarity, he has followed Christ well. He has picked up his cross every day and served his family and his community with passion. He was the first to show me what it looks like to serve. And that is a gift I am embracing now as I’m literally on the opposite side of the world. He has imparted wisdom, and discernment, and passion to me. He has opened my eyes to see the gifts that I have been given by him and by my Heavenly Father and how to use them. I can’t thank him enough for loving me more than himself. So, to those of you reading who know Jeff Bowman, feel free to share a (good) story of him. I love you dad. Thank you for your guidance towards Christ, instruction in righteousness, and love.
Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:1-9
