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<\/p>\nI spent much of yesterday at my parents house so my mom could spend some time with Chris at the hospital. Holly was napping, and Kelly was at school. So Dad and I chatted while I made chocolate chip cookies (per the girls’ request to my mom) and then I stayed there with Holly while he went to get Kelly. We spent the rest of the afternoon playing with play-doh and balls and bicycles. While we were outside, the girls picked a bunch of marigold flowers and “re-planted” them in the garden dirt next to their teepee. <\/p>\n
And speaking of the teepee, Eric uploaded the pictures of the girls when Karen and I were down on Wednesday to his website<\/a>. Let me know if the link doesn’t work!<\/p>\n I’m reading a book by Madeleine L’Engle right now called A Circle of Quiet<\/span>, and some of her thoughts have meant a lot to me this week: <\/p>\n 1. “A Russian priest, Father Anthony, told me, ‘To say to anyone “I love you” is tantamount to saying “You shall live forever.”‘” <\/p>\n 2. Then later in the book, L’Engle comments, “To matter in the scheme of the cosmos: this is better theology than all our sociology. It is, in fact, all that God has promised to us: that we matter. That he cares.” <\/p>\n 3. And finally: “Then there’s a third way to live: to live as though you believe that the power behind the universe is a power of love, a personal power of love, a love so great that all of us really do matter to him. He loves us so much that every single one of our lives has meaning; he really does know about the fall of every sparrow, and the hairs of our head are really counted. That’s the only way I can live.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent much of yesterday at my parents house so my mom could spend some time with Chris at the hospital. Holly was napping, and Kelly was at school. So Dad and I chatted while I made chocolate chip cookies … Continue reading \n
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