Oh the Bliss!

It's well known by now that I am a lover of words. I love the way they look on people's lips and how they sound when they come out. If I'm not staring at people's eyes (windows to the soul) I'm staring at their mouths because words are my fave. They are gorgeous, stunningly powerful, and for me, when put with music they're life changing. Music is the backdrop of my life. When words alone fail to convey a truth I'm trying to learn or teach, music steps in and beautifully articulates and translates for me. (I think that's why I was such a fan of the mix-tape. When I couldn't explain how I was feeling it was so much easier to say, "hear listen to this.") Music gets me. And God gets music. How gracious was he to understand his children well enough to know that simple words would not always do justice to our thoughts and feelings! He put songs in our hearts to give us another way of glorifying him. Getting our eyes off of us and back whe...

I wasn't planning on writing about Mia on her birthday because I didn't write about Ben or Addison on theirs. But then I remembered that LIFE'S NOT FAIR and my six children are pretty well aware of that, so write about Mia I will. There is a line in a song and every time I hear it I think it was written for Mia... "I know that it's been said before, but you're my human holiday." Mia IS a human holiday! Everything about her is whimsical and theatrical and magical and wild. I mean, have you seen her hair? (Or  - dare I even mention - her EYES???) Her heart is so gorgeous, I want her to give me lessons on how to be. She is crazy articulate, and expressive. Supper funny. Loves, loves, LOVES God's creatures, especially anything in the canine family (not her mother's child but whatevs, at least she likes chocolate.) She's getting to know Jesus. She hears God's word and she obeys it... or tries to... most of the...