Ever Singing For Joy

It’s real.️ It has a cover. Pages. Words. Rhythms. Pictures. And a Title, When I Hold You. My heart flutters when I see it. The book may have my name on the front, but this is ALL the Lord!  A few days ago, I got really big box on my front porch. It was HEAVY… like whoa heavy! I definitely should have waited for David to move the box inside. But all is well, the girls and I managed to get it in. I didn't know what was in the box. The girls were having fun opening the box… then before I knew it, I had TEARS! The box was filled with copies of my book!! I was completely overwhelmed. I could feel God being so tender with my heart in those moments. All of those struggles with being able to write met with a crash of praising loudly for all he has done. Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord your God is in your midst,     a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness;     he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.” While I was still bubbling in my tea

There's some exciting news on the home front; a welcomed respite from the struggles of the recent months. If you'll remember a post or two ago, I mentioned that Ashley had been working on a side project. I called it a side project because we'd been working through a lot of the struggles that came along with her cancer, but in reality, this project consumed a lot of Ashley's time and energy.  It was not a side project. Over the course of the past 2+ years, maybe even longer than that, Ashley has been working on a book.  You read that correctly, a book.  A children's book, more specifically, entitled it When I Hold You.   I cannot think of a better name for this book. I could go on about the backstory (and probably will in the coming days), but I'll put some of Ashley's words below about why she wrote this and how it all came to pass: I wrote this out of obedience to Christ.  As I started my recovery from my initial surgery and treatments, I never set out with