Thank you, Judith Lane Dolim

I opened my Bible today to the front page and the message Judy wrote to me 34 years ago, caught my eye. It's the Bible she gave to me when I was leaving college to head back to YWAM England.
When I read the verses she put at the end of her message I smiled. Those verses have been true about me since the day she wrote them, and whenever I look at the front of my Bible I remember her. Judy got the Bible with the fish, Steve got the one with the cross and she picked the one with the fish and cross for me, so I would think of them while I was away.
Steve and I have been married 32 years today.
I love my old, well worn, leather Bible, with it's partially color-coded sections, notes by certain passages, and a coffee cup ring on the back cover. It is, as Judy wrote, the "precious and most valuable treasure" she gave me so long ago; even more treasured now because it has been with me for so long, holding not only God's precious word, but of memories of cherished loved ones.
Thank you Judy. I love you still, from a distance.
Happy Anniversary Steve! I love you more each year.

Hiatus

I have been absent. Sorry, but this little munchkin is too precious a distraction. Lucy loves my yogurt so much she decided to give herself a blueberry yogurt facial.











The Burn's are now living in their digs in our basement, Jewell, Richie and Lucy are pretty much settled in and we are loving becoming the Walton's. No "Good night Johnboy" because we all go to bed at such different times, but it is great.
I haven't given up on my reading, but it has become more challenging to write about it. I still don't get Job. Sometimes his friends said some good stuff and sometimes they were really judgmental, but I had to read it slowly. I am sure that says something about me. I am the Psalms now and I love it. Back in the '70's, I learned so many of them as songs. I found my old Scripture in Song book and have had some leisurely moments singing and worshiping with the old, dearly loved songs. Maybe I can teach some of them to Lucy when I am watching her. Like Psalm 27, "The Lord is my light and my salvation - whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be afraid?"
Really, do they get much cuter than this?