The eldest child in the family is getting a taste of what a 9 to 5 job is like this summer. Thankfully, the work is enjoyable to him. Every day, rain or shine, he packs his lunch, hops on his bike and commutes to Fermilab.

His task for the summer is to…ready for it…build a radio telescope. It couldn’t be more up his alley! Every day for the first two weeks, he came home grinning ear to ear, anxious to tell us what he had done that day. Here he is on his first day:

Looking at this picture led me to think back to nearly 11 years ago to his first day of first grade.

God has surely put a passion in this young man’s heart for science. When he was not much older than first grade, he told me that he saw himself in the science world like a log on fire in the midst of unlit logs, scientists who do not believe in Jesus. He was excited to enter the science realm with the gospel and see the fire grow. I do pray that God will use him to do just that.

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. (Colossians 3:23-24)