Our Molly - 2007 - 2024

Thank You, Molly, for bringing such JOY into our lives for so many years.

Thank You for putting up with us....for encouraging us....for forgiving us when we didn't feed you on time.

Thank You for crawling into our laps when we were sad....

Thank You for trusting us to keep you safe and to provide entertainment for you when you were bored.

And when we didn't deserve to be loved because we left you too long or rubbed your nose in things you couldn't help, you loved us anyway. Unconditionally.

I learned a lot from you, Molly. Thank You for allowing us to be YOUR parents. We will always love you.

Chapter 64

 

Today......Marks the Beginning of Chapter 64 in the Life of Liz.

I love getting older. Sounds crazy I know, but I wouldn’t reverse the clock for all the money in the world. If anything, I would increase the clock speed as I move forward into the future.

And there's just something about being another year older that causes you to reflect back on Chapters 63 or 44 or 27 or look ahead to Chapters 65 or 72 or 86 in your life, right? 

To look at where you’ve been......and to where you’re going. 

To the Shipwrecks in your life....and to the Rescues. 

To the Griefs.....and to the Restorations.

When you look back on spent chapters in your life, you are able to see with clarity....20-20 vision....the pouring out of Grace you received through those very Rescues and Restorations by the One who numbered your days when He created you. You remember the sufferings, yes.....but you also see the ripples from your endurance muscles increasing because of those Chapters of Suffering.

"Suffering Produces Endurance.....” 

Romans 5:3

I am finding with each passing year, the things I used to hold tightly to my chest....you know, those things of “this” world that distract me and I thought were important and necessary....are anything but. They are just noisy “things”. And they kept me looking “back” more than looking “forward”. Forward past the final chapter in the Book Of Liz to a new book:

A book titled, “Eternity”.

Can't wait to read Chapter 64!!

Tuesdays With Pappo: Happy Pappo Day!

#tuesdayswithpappo

Happy Father's Day, Pappo......

Thank You for being MY Pappo....even when we have to handcuff you to the tech at your doctors office.

You are deeply and dearly loved by your Softie.  

Blessings Come In Many Shapes

 June 14, 2024

On August 9, 2016.......this little treasure came into my life as a Blessing by a good friend.....who saw a need and filled it. Our entire home had flooded 8 months earlier.....we had just moved back into the restored home and were without a place to put our clothes........

A kind man from our church heard of our need.....loaded up his antique dresser that had been in his family for many years into the bed of his pickup truck.....and drove it to our home.

Even though I never knew his family, this antique dresser always made me feel a part of his family. Like I had a piece of their DNA or something.

I moved 5x since that original delivery to our post-flooded lake house. And it has moved with me each time. From our lake house to the little blue cabin on the lake to my house in Allen to a storage Pod to our home today.

It has served many purposes over the years....far more than just holding our clothes...but today, I said goodbye and thanked it for being SO good to me as it went to a new home....a new person to bless....to a farm house much like the one it originally lived in. I understand its new home will be in a farmhouse photography studio where it just might become a celebrity among families making memories and continuing to deliver blessings to everyone who crosses its path.

And my heart is full because..... IT LIVES ON.

UPDATE:

And here is where it lives now.....

https://www.instagram.com/thelittleglassshack?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Kindness of A Friend

 On August 9, 2016.......this little treasure came into my life as a Blessing by a good friend.....who saw a need and filled it. Our entire home had flooded 8 months earlier.....we had just moved back into the restored home and were without a place to put our clothes........

A kind man from our church heard of our need.....loaded up his antique dresser that had been in his family for many years into the bed of his pickup truck.....and drove it to our home.

Even though I never knew his family, this antique dresser always made me feel a part of his family. Like I had a piece of their DNA or something.

I moved 5x since that original delivery to our post-flooded lake house. And it has moved with me each time. From our lake house to the little blue cabin on the lake to my house in Allen to a storage Pod to our home today.

It has served many purposes over the years....far more than just holding our clothes...but today, I said goodbye and thanked it for being SO good to me as it went to a new home....a new person to bless....to a farm house much like the one it originally lived in. I understand its new home will be in a farmhouse photography studio where it just might become a celebrity among families making memories and continuing to deliver blessings to everyone who crosses its path.

And my heart is full because..... IT LIVES ON.

UPDATE:

And here is where it lives now.....

https://www.instagram.com/thelittleglassshack?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

It's Been A Week.....A GREAT Week!!

 It's been a week of Cousins...Weddings....Beaches..... Babies......Butterflies....Peach Ice Cream and Great Great Friends!

A whirlwind week of 4:30 am departures.....Took 2 states to get the dang Appleplay map to work in the car....Guessing 70's TV Theme Song Trivia on the Highway ......Thunderstorms..... Gorgeous Garden Weddings......Awesome Calloway Cousins..... Dancing..... Toasting.....Alligators.....Grasshoppers.....Little Girls Named Juniper....Sweet Geogia Cousins.....Remembering Sweet-Home-Alabama-Grandma-In-the-Woods on Hwy. 22......Peach Ice Cream and Fried Pies....and the Very Best of Friends named LaRue.

This week has been full......and wonderful.....and a Gift straight-up from God's hands to ours. Tomorrow we head home.....but not until we leave Tupelo, Mississippi (home of Elvis!!) and jump on the Natchez Trace Parkway for a day of incredible beauty!

Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we‘ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you, Wayne. Thanks for making this adventure 

magical!