Deep and Wide: Book Reviews

Standing beside my husband at The Cliff’s Glassy Mountain Chapel Sunday morning, I did something I had not done in a very long time. I held a hymnal in my hands. Chapel at Cliff's Glassy Mountain It's the "old fashioned" or "traditional" way of singing praise in church. We even shared the song book. He took one side. I gripped the other. It was great. As we sang “ It Is Well With My Soul ” (the Baptist way -- all four verses), I thought about other wonderful hymns that have gone by and by. Like The Sweet By and By : There’s a land that is fairer than day, And by faith we can see it afar; For the Father waits over the way To prepare us a dwelling place there. Refrain: In the sweet by and by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore; In the sweet by and by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore. (Sanford Bennett) I LOVE contemporary praise songs. Having the words on the screen is convient.  But the nostalgia of opening a ...

Mei Mei Holmberg 1997-2015 RIP Have you ever done something you can’t reverse or repair, and find yourself unable to forget or forgive yourself? May 6 th , 2015 I did something that made me feel that way. It was a beautiful day. I played Glassy Mountain golf course with my husband and a friend. It is a fantastic course, but tough and long. By the end ... I was really tired. Then we stopped in for BBQ at a delicious little dive. Now I was really full and really tired. Arriving home, I did what I always did first … I let the dogs out. Only I didn’t let them both in. Mei Mei was a week from turning eighteen years old. She couldn’t see much anymore, her hearing was gone, but she still had a bit of puppy spunk in her. Her appetite was great and her tail wagged constantly. Mei Ling, her daughter, was about to turn fourteen, very spry and always right on my heels. After the puppies did their thing, I walked back into the house through the garage...