What do you think...does he look like his father?

First of all, you need to know who this little boy is, right? He's definitely a Rhon...but is he Dan (our son) or Micah or Eli (grandsons)?  And who's his little friend?  Does the background tell you anything? (Probably not...sorry!  Looks like they just escaped from behind bars, eh?)

Here's a picture of Dan with KC and the kids.  Micah is between his parents and Eli is on this end.  Which of the three looks like the boy in the top photo?  ("All three?")

  But you had to choose one, so...see if you were right!  The top picture was taken in Dan's birthplace, Australia, when Dan and his friend Ingrid were around three-and-a-half years old. (Is that about right, Nélida?)   (Ingrid's folks were good friends, from Argentina, and co-workers in the Spanish-speaking church.) I think this was taken in our back yard, in front of the fence the owner of the property put in so that he could keep a sheep back there.  (The lot was very large.)  We named the sheep Charlie.  After that, every time Dan saw another sheep he'd say, "There's a Charlie!"  (Although he said it in Spanish, the only language he spoke til he was five.) 

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If you haven't seen  my husband Germán (to see if son looks like father)...here he is reading to Eli, and granddaughters Liliana and Miriam. Somewhere, someone has a picture of Germán when he was two, with ringlets!!  But no one seems to know where it is or who has it.  Even without that photo, I can tell you that Dan didn't look much like his dad on the outside!  When Germán carried Dan on his shoulders, the contrast between the father's jet-black hair and the son's very light-brown (almost blond) hair was impressive.  Some people didn't believe they were father and son at first!  Micah and Eli do look  more like their dad, and in some older pictures of them, it's hard to tell who it is!

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 "What do you think...does he/she look like The Father?"  If this were asked about you...what would people say?  Jesus definitely looked like His Father! "If you really knew Me, you would know my Father as well....Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father." (John 14:7,9)  Can the same be said about us, His children?

 What one looks like inside is much more important than physical resemblance. It's fun to see baby pictures and compare, isn't it?  But more importantly, we know that Dan makes an effort to model behavior and ethics that Micah and Eli can learn from, so that they can, even in their own individuality, grow to  resemble their dad inside as they understand that he strives to resemble his Father..and we pray that they will purpose to do the same.  Jesus left us the best example of how we can "look like our Father". Studying how He lived, how He spoke...in such a way that He could say "I and the Father are one"...is enlightening.  And challenging!!  (Maybe even a little intimidating!)  None of us could ever compare to Jesus, but we can learn from Him what it means to be "one with the Father".

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Have a wonderful week!