happy 4th birthday, Jackson!
Dear Jackson, Happy 4th birthday!!! I can only imagine what wondrous birthday parties there are in Heaven! Are you celebrating with cake and ice cream like we did two years ago? Did you make a wish and blow out your candles? What did you wish for? I bet Heaven is like one big birthday party all the time! It’s hard to believe that today, on your 4th birthday, you have lived in Heaven longer than you were with us. Jackson, that breaks my heart. When I realized it, Momma fell to her knees and cried. It hurt to my core. Momma hasn’t cried that hard in awhile. It’s just not fair. We didn’t get to have you here with us long enough. But who am I kidding. No amount of time would have been long enough. The two years with you were the best of my life. And I am grateful I...
the devil won’t win
I ran into a friend the other day, and like the start of most conversations, I casually asked her how things were going. Her response surprised me. “The devil has been coming at me this week,” she said. “But I’m not letting him win.” What a powerful statement. I feel like the devil is always knocking on my door. Sometimes it’s a soft “tap tap”. And other times he is banging so hard the door is about fall down. Like two weeks ago… I was at the bookstore alone and left my phone in the car. I was gone for only five or ten minutes, but when I returned there were several missed calls from Eric and Kate’s school. I knew this was not going to end well. Kate was injured on the playground. As the school nurse put it, “she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”...
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