Sometimes the words we share linger on the page so we can read and think about them time and again.
From our first meeting together on 10/5/02, one mother (unnamed) made the comment: “I am living in a different book now.”
“We are parents—Hope’s parents…Wes and Andy’s parents. The heart never forgets what being a parent feels like.” (Written in an email on July 26, 2006 from Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China shortly after becoming Hope’s parents)~Beverly Burton
9/30/06 After several years of writing to prompts from which we found much help, one mother said: ”All our husbands could use a prompt.”~Kelly Sechrist
10/1/06 “It’s good to hear each other’s voices on the page.”~Carol Henderson
4/22/07 About the difference in her life before and after Rebecca’s death, “I did have everything I wanted; now I have everything that’s happened.”~Peggy Clover
4/24/10 After a prompt about life jackets, “Some of our kids were locked in place, but they still slipped away.”~Julie Hester
11/8/03 From a chapter called “Healing” in Practicing Our Faith, edited by Dorothy Bass, Beth Baldwin shared this description:
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.”
–Malcolm in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Wise words from our children:
2/21/01 “You’d be surprised how different the view is on the way out than on the way in.”~Katie Sleap
