Running to the Darkness

The Good

Sometimes we can listen to something over and over and never really HEAR it!

Friday is our "therapy day" or better known as our grandparents' day...every Friday that Gary and I are in town we are privileged to have the company of the most adorable 19 month old boy EVER! Yes, we are biased but just stop by and see for yourself! Landon is our first grandchild and we are both first borns so of course we want to encourage and inspire and enhance his little life in every way humanly possible! Jesi and Jeremy are great parents! Jeremy is the googey-eyedist devoted daddy who loves to spend time with his son! And Jesi is a smart experienced child development savy preschool trained and Sunday school tested teacher!So they really don't need our help much, EXCEPT physically, they value the time to redirect their energy and effort back into one another, their marriage, work, friends, or  sometimes just to sleep in! We proved trustworthy enought to not only keep him all day on most Fridays but also overnight! And we LOVE it!!!

Jesi decided early on in Landon's life (Jesi is a first born as well! And Jeremy IS a first born son!)to teach him sign language. It is supposed to help defer the terrible two's and temper tantrums (we will let you know in a few months:) and allow a way for babies and toddlers to communicate before they can actually speak. My sister, Brigette, experienced being a grandmother before me and she told us how helpful it was to teach her grand daughter sign language. So Gary and I were glad to help! So we purchased some Baby Signing Time dvd's and began learning along with Landon! And we all love it! The songs are great and they make signing easy to learn and remember!

 

We only have three dvd's and we have been watching and interacting with them once a week or so for over a year! Today we were listening to one and I had heard the song hundreds of times but today I HEARD the message for the firsr time!

Rachel Coleman, author and creator of the Sgning Time program and dvd's, wrote the song (probably after discovering her first born daughter was deaf). I hope that it encourages and inspires you as much as it did me.

The Good

It was you and me and the whole world right before us

I couldn’t wait to start

I saw you and dreams just like everyone before us

We thought we knew what we got

And then one day I thought it slipped away

And I looked to my hands to hold on

And then one day all my fear slipped away

And my hands did so much more

So maybe we won’t find easy

But, baby, we’ve found the good

No, maybe we won’t find easy

But, baby, we’ve found the good!

It was you and me and a new world right before us

I was so scared to start

I saw you and dreams just like everyone before us

But how did they move so far?

And then one day I thought it slipped away

And I looked to my hands to hold you

And then one day all my fear slipped away

And my hands did so much more

So maybe we won’t find easy

But, baby, we’ve found the good

Maybe we won’t find easy

But, baby, we’ve found the good!

To my awesome husband Aaron- Maybe we won’t find easy, but baby, we have found the good! I love you~ Rachel

Happy Sweetheart's Day!!! Thirty-two Years ago...

My sweetheart said to me this morning,”Hey, am i remembering right? Didn’t I propose to you on Valentine’s Day?

That he did! We both were working in Houston at Fast Motor Freight, the late evening shift which meant all of the bills of lading had to be completed before we could leave so we usually finished about 11:00 p.m. We rode together so we had special permission from the authorities at the Christian College we attended, Gulf Coast Bible College (now in Oklahoma City, renamed Mid American Christian University) to be in late that night. But what I didn’t know was that he had asked special permission as well to be inside the Chapel at West 11th Church there on the campus of the school. So we went inside and there in the semi darkness of the chapel we he told me of his love and asked me to marry him! We took communion and prayed at the alter together. He had planned to wash my feet but the chaplian thought that that was too risky and we might get carried away. Anyway, I said YES! and we celebrated 31 years of marriage this year! And we have fought hard for every day of it! Sometimes we have fought others, sometimes our kids, sometimes the enemy and sometimes each other! But it is a BEAUTIFUL fight! And we know it won’t be over until we finish the race!