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Tomorrow is the anniversary of Emma's open heart surgery. I don't know if it is that or other stresses in my life right now that are causing me to be very emotional. Two days ago I was a wreck, yesterday I was fine, today I am
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Lord, please heal my heart, but not so much that I don't hurt, For if I don't hurt, how will I remember. Lord, never let me forget the pain, For if I forget, how will I know your blessings Lord if you choose to fill my
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Well, this will be a post of odds and ends, but here goes. First of all, this has been a good week despite the memories of Emma. September 14 was a very significant day in my mind. It marked the first day Emma travelled down to Little Rock. It was
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As I stand here on the threshold of what I see as 5 months worth of Emma memories, I am a little nervous. You see, even though Emma's birthday was in July, it is now that we are hitting the "significant dates." Most of Emma'
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It is because of the physical benefits of walking that I got out of bed and went on a walk to start off my week on Monday morning. It is part of my new schedule. But what I soon realized was that I had forgotten a huge aspect of the
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The Sovereignty of God. That is what I am studying this week in my devotional--The One Year Book of Hope by Nancy Guthrie. The first couple of days of this chapter had confused me, because I felt like what it was teaching contradicted what was taught in the chapter on
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I have been feeling rather down lately. Nothing major, just an overall sense of loss. Some of my memories of Emma are so clear lately, especially when we pulled up some short movie clips of her the other day and I saw her smile again in motion. I also feel
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Here is a cute story about Elise and discipline. The other day we were getting ready for company and I asked her to clean her room. Of course, she is really good about getting me to "help," which means I end up doing most of the work. So
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I picked up Emma's ring today! I am so excited and enjoying getting used to the feel of it on my finger. Here are some pictures:
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I hope everyone is keeping cool. Man, is it hot! Elise and I took a quick trip this afternoon to just a couple stores. I don't know if it was worth it. The car was really hot and never had time to get cool throughout the drive. The
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Well, this is going to be long. But I'd like to let you all know how our trip went. Friday, July 14 was Emma's birthday. I hadn't really anticipated it being too hard. My week had been going well, and I fooled myself into
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Just so everyone knows and is not trying to track us down, we will be gone this weekend. We leave Friday, which is Emma's birthday and will get back Saturday night. Elise is excited to go to that "cool new place." (We are visiting Silver Dollar