June 5, 2005

Dear Abby,

It's just you and me, as Pa is in Nicaragua on a mission trip and your sisters and parents went to Washington D.C. for your Dad's cousin's graduation. We have had fun together with building blocks and puzzles, going for wagon rides and eating ice cream.

There is no one sweeter or more adorable than our Abby! You are so smart and you are busy every minute. You no longer love for me to rock you and sing to you for you know that precedes going to bed, and you fight that. Though your vocabulary is limited you understand almost everything and you follow instructions. You stop what you shouldn't be doing when I tell you "no". You give me kisses and you give me good love laying your head on my shoulder. You smile easily and often and with that smile you melt hearts. You laugh and giggle easily and heartily. You are beautiful, happy, and fun. You are perfect in every way and a true God-given blessing. I'm just crazy over you and I thank God for you, praying always for your health and protection and for your soul.

You are walking and have been doing so for a couple of months now. Though you can walk across the room, with every step it looks as if you will fall. You are so unsteady on your feet and you walk with your legs so far apart that it is funny! You just haven't learned the leg posture yet. You are so proud of yourself to be walking and when you fall you laugh and giggle, get up and take off full speed. I love you little Abby and I will love you forever! Granna

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, "This is the way; walk in it." Isaiah 30:21

As little Abby was so unsteady on her feet when she began to walk, when she would hold to our hand and we would guide her giving her encouragement she was safe and would not fall. Are we any different in our walk? As long as we hold to God's " righteous right hand" and hear his voice we will not fall. When I first learned this verse I thought of the way as being the path, but it has occurred to me that the way is the Word. Amy Grant's song "Thy Word" came to mind. Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my WAY. This way or word comes from behind from someone we don't see but who sees us. God's spirit sets us straight and keeps us from going wrong; and we shall hear what God has spoken only if we have perceived it through the Word.