Saturday, September 27, 2008

broken but singing, our hearts keep shining

so, i want you to go read matt dean's latest post. "shine - part 2" (thurs sept 25)


... as you hold fast to the word of life..." Phil 2:16a.


so basically thurday night he showed the video thats on his blog and said how awesome it was that these people still give it all right back to God. this got to me. me and my friend shannon had just gotten finished talking about Berlin. if i hadnt had gone through Berlin's death then I dont know what i would have done this summer. It was that i was countries away, depending on blog posts, and calls from mom to find out what was going on with Matthew. And as badly as I wanted to be in Guatemala right then, I didnt want anything but to be home. I wanted to hug Toni. I couldnt do that though cause I was countries away. God prepared me for it though. He's good.

What I do want to say in this post though is how amazing Toni Burnham is. if you go to Matthew's CaringBridge you can see this for youself. No matter what happened or what difficulties came, they never once stopped praising Him. And they continue to amaze me all the time. They still update the blog with thoughts and verses and prayers. Their strength amazes me... but of course it would, its straight from the Father. Anyways, this one is for Toni. I hope when I have children one day I can be as strong as this woman.



Broken but singing

Our hearts keep shining