From the Husband

So... my name is Luke and I am husband to this amazing mother and blogger. I am hijacking her blog for the evening. If you have been following and reading about our lives, I want you to know that we have been blessed by all the thoughts and prayers for our family and our precious gift, Madelyn. I love that my wife is blogging. She is one of the most creative people I know. For a long time I had been nagging at her to start a blog because I know she is an incredible writer. Throughout high school she wrote poems that were amazing and helped write skits for the youth ministry we were involved in. So when she started reading other mommy bloggers, I told her, "You need to start a blog". I have to tell you, reading her blog is one of the big highlights of my day because I know what she writes is exactly what she is thinking and feeling (especially the things in parenthesis because I can just picture the dialogue she is having in her head and it just makes me laugh out loud... literally). This blog has been a blessing for our family. It has allowed us to process and truly think about how faithful God is. It has made scripture come alive for us...like Psalm 126:3, which has become one of our new favorites, "The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy".

Today was one of the best days I have had in a long time. For the first time in 3 months, my wife was able to come to church and we were able to worship our Heavenly Father together. I have missed her being by my side during church. I know it took every ounce of her strength to leave our baby girl at home with the grandmas. Yep! That's right. We had double Grandma duty this morning because my mom is in town from McAllen for a quick trip to see her first grand baby and as you know we are still camped out at Kat's parent's house because of the flooding in our house. So, with both the Gma's watching our pretty little lady, Kathryn came to church! It was a special day at the church for a couple reasons:

• We welcomed our new pastor to West Lake, which I am really excited about. I know God has some awesome things ahead for our church family.
• I had the blessing of singing a song this morning and it was one the songs that kept us anchored in the middle of our darkest times in the hospital while Madelyn struggled to breath. It is a song by Charlie Hall called Mystery. It is a really simple song with just a few words, but for Kathryn and I it kept us grounded in the truth of God that is faithful and worthy of praise. The chorus is simple yet to my soul profoundly says, "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again." This kept me anchored in the fact that Christ has conquered sin and death. He is truly alive and that in the middle of this life, the good and bad, this song proclaims the truth that one day Christ will come again and will make all things new. My hope is in this. My Strength is in this. My prayer is that one day my sweet baby girl will come to know these deep truths. That Jesus Christ is all we need in this world.

I want to thank you for all your prayers for my pretty ladies and giving my wife a chance to use her gift of writing to share what is going on in our world. I know God has huge plans for Madelyn Kate and I know He has huge plans for you. I pray that whenever or wherever you are as you read this that you feel this amazing truth...that Christ who died is now Risen and will come again to make all things new.

If we can pray for you and your family, leave a comment or email my wife. We have seen how powerful prayer really is and how faithful God is to His children.

Thanks for letting me hijack the blog for a night. I know Kathryn is a much better writer but a guy can try, right???

For His Glory,
Luke



So, I could not let a day go by without posting pics of my sweet baby girl...hijacked blog or not!! I also had to share a couple of things with you:

1. Madelyn has been showered with love by both of her Grandmas this weekend and she is excited to spend another day with Gigi tomorrow before she has to go to her meetings in Dallas on Tuesday.
2. I have an amazing husband. If you have a few minutes, you should listen to this audio clip from church this morning as he poured out his heart about the impact of the Charlie Hall song he mentioned earlier on us while Madelyn was in the hospital. I know that it was incredibly emotional for Luke, but I am so proud of him. I wish you could hear the sweet sound of our church family as they joined in singing this simple chorus...it was truly breathtaking.
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3. If you have another couple of minutes, watch this video of Charlie Hall singing the same song, "Mystery". You will be blessed by the song and what he has to say about half way through the video!
   
   *Kathryn