This is the fourth in the series of “vlogs” or video blogs that have included the three blessings books (Marriage, Home, and Child). This one is a personal tribute to long-term marriage.
Our first baby was 18 months old when we built our house that we have lived in all these years. The house has grown up with us, and our family has grown up in it. We always had a fireplace, but when we added our “new” kitchen to the original house, our son was seven years old. We knew we wanted a fireplace in the kitchen, and a day bed, and a window seat. We wanted a big island for serving as many people as would fit in our house, and a big long table where at least 10 people could comfortably sit together.
Little did we know that the fireplace in that big new kitchen would become much more than a fireplace. It would become the soul of our house. And it would witness all the things that a marriage comes to experience in more than a half century of living and loving together. Somehow, the marriage, the family, and the house have endured—as has the sweet habit of building fires through the seasons of our lives. We would like to share with you a bit of what those fires have witnessed over the years. All of our children are now fire-builders on their own, thanks to Bill’s passion for drawing us all together around a fire. And that son who was seven when we built this fireplace now is building fires for his own family and created the music score for the reading of all of the Blessing Books as well as the following tribute to the memories we all made BY THIS FIRE.
