Congratulations to Nettie, Til I see "baby Charlotte" I am praying for her. I love her already!

Everybody yells at me, her name is not Constance! I know, but I live in Charlotte. So I picked a new name for my sweetiepie!:)

Two weeks of a severe cough and today, I am on the mend!

A cough is sometimes like a newborn baby. First, it wakes your every hour and then 2 hrs etc., until you are back to a full night's sleep. Last night was my first full night's sleep since the funeral in Myrtle Beach. It is 2/21 and I feel better. My eyes are clear, my lungs are clearing up and I am back to the grindstone. Glad to enjoy the reality of large and busy family life.

Expected accumulation 0.4 inch of ice. Hooray! It's snowing!

We will get our photo op with frosty, this year, after all. {Lord willing, and the creek don't rise, as they say...} I thought we were going to miss it, but the white stuff is coming down and it is 30 degrees. If it stays like this all night we should have our anticipated 0.4 inch of the white stuff on the ground by morning. The Superintendent hasn't called with the news of the school closings and such.

It is a dramatization, perhaps, but a delightful one for the sake of safety and the enjoyment of our children. They make snow angels for one day out of the year and we catch Jack Frost on the rebound from his dumping on the North and everyone is happy. Tomorrow it is supposed to get into the 40s and perhaps, if we are really good, we may keep the snow for a whole day.

I just love it! God is sovereign and we savor the moment of magic that the heavens grant us.

When the future comes to call. Thank God for dear friends when unexpected college friends descend on our home. Sharon cooked us a feast on short notice, last weekend when the college kids came home.

Sophomore Ethan, Hangs on to his standing in the IB program, by a thread.

He's got a decent report card and I am always amazed at the studious ambition of these boys. He studies and he does his work and I am grateful for the opportunity to watch him do his best and try as hard as he can in a very ambitious program. AP History is giving him fits, but he hangs on and tries hard. Not just a musician, but a scholar. Thank God!

Meditating on God's great mercy and grace, I put some music together on this subject. Be blessed.

I just love this old song from Danniebelle Hall! Happy Saturday!

What does my faith tree look like this many years after sowing my "Bobbypin tree"? Learning to know the faith, the size of a bobbypin cross.

Today is the bobby-pin lady's birthday. Second grade, she found herself far from her mommy and daddy. She found real faith in God. She said to God that she wanted to be with her mommy and daddy and not there at the boarding school. God gave her what she wanted and let her mommy and daddy come and get her and take her home and gave her a sister and 2 more brothers to enjoy after that.

It was amazing that she valued family and God's instruction about what a wife and mommy should be. God let her have a very big tree of faith by the time I met her when she was 20. Now, at 73, I can't see the top of her faith tree. Every once in a while fruit from her tree drops to the ground and we can see that it is much bigger than we could know about. Mountainous faith of continuance and blessing. God is still answering prayer. God is still planting new trees for her. God is faithful and if someone has the faith of a mustard seed, he can say to this mountain...We know he does, because our trees are still growing.

Happy Birthday, Mommy!

Though Perry's gone ahead. He's with the Lord. Will we see him, in that Day? God help us to know YOU!

When losses come, they are certainly difficult. Ben preached the Gospel to his family and Jerry also preached. Johnny was the presiding minister and we had a full house in South Carolina for the home-going of this stalwart soldier of the Walker Family. It is always amazing how the Lord enters into our grief cycles. He comforts and consoles and we are grateful that He does. The backdrop of Myrtle Beach was a fitting natural comfort for such a separation of closeknit siblings into a second season of life.

James, in his 70's said to me that he talked to Perry daily on the phone from his home in Virginia with his 2 grown daughters. I said you will see a new season of ministry in prayer, James. You have so much to look forward to and the most important look out, is for Jesus to come soon... and so shall we ever be with the Lord. James seemed comforted by these words. Perhaps some, who haven't yet met Jesus will be moved to live for HIM, whom to know is life eternal. We all{siblings and inlaws and cousins} sat and consoled eachother and looked at the beach and loved oneanother and then went home.

Lee, who had cared for Perry for these last months in SC. was now ready for her season of retirement in the south. She deserves a great reward for her great service to this very sick brother. She made him comfortable and independent even though he had been sick and blinded by the diabetes. He is in Heaven and she and Julius are left to see the earthly beauty of Myrtle Beach. Our hearts are with him in heaven as we continue our pilgrimage. God moves in a MYSTERIOUS WAY!