Everyday Life

I Love You Lord, a sweet tribute from Southern Hills Church on Vimeo.

This is the video of the song Craig sang with the help of these wonderful men at Cade's service.  It was a beautiful way to honor God in such a hard time in our lives.  I am so proud of my amazing husband!

 Lord, today I am missing my little boy.  I know he is safe and happy with you, and that makes me smile, but my mommy heart is hurting and longing for him.  Besides the fact that I will never have the chance to get to know him, he will not get to know me either.  Please tell him about his mommy.  Please tell him how much I love him.  Please hug him and kiss him the way I would.  Please tell him about me.  Tell him about the things I like, and the things I don’t, how I look and how I smell, the sound of my voice and my tender touch.  Tell him how much I love to read books and sing songs to his sisters, and how I wish I could with him too.  Please tell him how much I wish I could see him grow.  Tell him how I don’t know how to play with boys, but would give anything to have the chance to play with him.  Please tell him I would never let him play football, but would be his biggest fan in any other sport.  Please tell him I’m fun and funny, and quiet and caring.  Please tell him all about me, God.  There is no one better to tell him about me than you.  For you, Lord, know me better than I know myself.  So today, God, I am asking you to not only be Cade’s Heavenly Father but to show him his earthly mommy.

 I cannot describe the feeling I had after seeing these beautiful pictures.  This well represents so much.  It provides a small village in Uganda of about 400 people with clean water to drink.  That means these precious people will no longer have to drink polluted diseased water.  Illness will be reduced and these sweet babies will have the hope of living.

Look at those faces!  Are they not beautiful?!  I hope that these babies and many more will be given life because of this well.  Because of something as simple as clean water, these sweet faces will see another day.  But it is so much more than that!
As these children grow and thrive, they are given a chance to become something, someone.  They are able to grow and learn and hopefully make a difference for someone else.  They could build, invent, or create.  They could love, teach, and serve.  What will they become?  Who will they touch?
But most importantly, these people will live another day to learn about the love of Jesus.  They now have an opportunity to hopefully learn about who this man was that loves them so much that he died for them.
Not only does this well provide hope for people thousands of miles away, it provides hope for me as well.  Seeing my sweet baby's name and birthdate on that well brought a tear to my eyes and a smile to my face at the same time.  This well means Cade made a difference.  He mattered.  He did something in this world.  God used Cade's life to make a powerful impact to so many people we don't even know.  I pray God be glorified in this.