Truly without a sense of guile or selfish ambition. He's a writer, artist and all around good guy. We are honored to pay back this man in such a small way for all the years of sacrifice that he made for his family.
So with the preparations in mind, you'll understand why I only got a row a snowflakes done on the Christmas stocking! This has been such a fun thing to do, with a lot of creativity to play around with. Here is a piece of wrapping paper I've kept as I worked on the stocking. Isn't it lovely? Maybe I'll use red and white for the next one!
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My house tends to be a pretty creative place. My husband is a songwriter and musician. I met him in 1983 when his band played at my college's chapel service. The band was a religious group that toured year round and lived predominantly on a bus. He had toured before that group with secular groups and was intrigued with this new kind of Christian music. He soon after devoted his career ambitions to a much more religious purpose and later enrolled and graduated from the college I was attending. I was there learning 'how to be a missionary' which I now think is a misnomer. Anyway, several years later he was teaching a guitar class at a seminar for church musicians and one of his students was Gov. Mike Huckabee, the Fox News contributor!
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| Jamie and Mike 1993 |
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| 10k Filipinos singing a song my husband wrote - what an exciting night! |