Steven recently surprised me and a friend (who is staying with us for our weeklong Hymn Improvisation Workshop) with a tour of a lovely English Cottage. Enjoy some pictures!

We’ve been working over the last year on a new family project: Hymnwriting! It has been such a joy.

After a long ramp up time, ReflectHymn.com is now live!

Our first project, for the month of January was writing a new tune for the hymn, Faith of Our Fathers. Listen to the tune and download the free sheet music. Pass it around to your friends, and sing it in your church. And let us know if it is a blessing to you.

We plan to release one new hymn tune a month. Next up for February’s hymn: a new tune for a 1912 Psalter edition of Psalm 76, “God Is Known among His People”.

It works.

*Smile.*

Brothers.

Steven is so good to work with my little brothers and teach them things.

A special birthday breakfast with Daddy [a long standing tradition] and Steven. [A new tradition . . . he’s taking the picture!]

Picking out our Christmas tree for the Hanging of the Greens.

My wonderful parents.

To see the view from the other lens, click here.

Photo courtesy of Sarah Joy.

What a treasured day; to spend my birthday with my husband and my family in Missouri. : )