Category: The Library
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Heartbreak
The music of Steven Curtis Chapman has touched Brian’s and my life in so many ways. My heart just broke when I read this. From The Tennessean: Steven Curtis Chapman’s youngest child died Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a car driven by her teenage brother in the driveway of the family’s Williamson County home.…
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Race For The Cure In-Law Style
These pictures of my sister-in-law, brother-in-law and their absolutely adorable son (isn’t he the cutest?!) participating in the Race For The Cure reduced me to a sobbing mess. Then she had to go and write this on her blog. Now I’m an even bigger mess. Isn’t it wonderful? Thank you… thank you… thank you! I…
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Me And My Buddy
This morning a very somber Asher curled his lanky body into my lap. He sighed deeply saying nothing. I held him quietly, gazing at his long eyelashes as they curled around his beautiful eyes. I love his eyelashes! (I used to joke that my second-born would be a girl with short eyelashes and small eyes…
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My Mother
For all the times you sang to me The lullabies and hymns, When you sat by the bed and waited As the daylight faded dim. The times I fell and skinned my knee As I played in the heat of the day. You bandaged me, and then you smiled And kissed the pain away. For…
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My Star
Every morning we sit around our breakfast table and I read to my children from the Bible. There are so many things I love about this time. Time with them. Time memorizing Scripture together. Time answering the questions that overflow. Time to watch their minds and hearts embrace truth. Time for me to see God’s…
A Spring of Joy 