Dear Family and Friends,
I know many of you enjoy hearing our “Higgins Highlights”, so I will indulge you just a little and maybe it will fill your heart...
We are fast approaching 2 years living in the Old Stone House. We still love it. We also discovered the house is much older than thought -1850. So it was standing while the Civil War raged and the Confederates marched nearby on their way to York and then Gettysburg.
Big Walter is chipping away at our new basement bathroom, we now have a shower that doesn’t leak! We singlehandedly liquidated Home Depot’s stash of clearance trees. We are hopeful the spring will unfold happy new crabapples and willow oaks. We made a trip to Little Rock this summer. I think we picked the hottest week of the summer to go but everyone had a good visit and no one got carsick!
Walter is in 2nd grade. Over the past year he has become quite a proficient reader. He burns the midnight oil pouring over Star Wars books and whatever else he has brought home from the library. Rosie is in Kindergarten. She is breezing through her math book; I can hardly keep up with her. They both have been learning about American history and all the States and Capitals. We are proud of what they have retained. The two of them (I can hear them now) always play together. A princess drives a tank or Hess truck. Stuffed animals prepare for space travel or to visit Doc McStuffins. Somehow they mesh each other’s favorite toys to play together.
Little Walter, I think, has won over Rose’s heart for the singer Keith Green. Some of you will ask who is Keith Green? Keith Green was a Christian singer or par and friends with Bob Dylan. (A name you are more likely to know.) He was a prolific musician and songwriter in the 70s and early 80s. He wrote a treasure trove of worship songs. I read an autobiography about him many years ago and it literally transformed my life. So every once in awhile, usually around Easter, I pull out Keith Green. Walter just grew to love Keith Green’s music. He has many songs memorized. Rosie not so much, she would groan. But over the last couple weeks her tune has changed. I catch her singing along. She seems to love his music now. Keith Green died in a plane crash 35 years ago but what a legacy he left! His music is played in station wagons & minivans across America and churches throughout the world. YouTube is full of him. People are still listening and having their hearts changed, transformed and renewed. I am thankful my kids are among them.
Our real highlights are the little lights that shine in the hearts of our children as they play together. They shine when life looks a little dim and remind us as they sing along with Keith, “Oh Lord Your are Beautiful”, “There is a Redeemer” and “You Put this Love in My Heart” and these are all messages that are as timeless today as they were in 1979 and are the same truths that have been sung to a different tunes over the past 2000 years…
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2018 and may your heart be full of His Beauty and Love because -There is a Redeemer.
Blessings,
Walter, Liz, Walter and Rose
I know many of you enjoy hearing our “Higgins Highlights”, so I will indulge you just a little and maybe it will fill your heart...
We are fast approaching 2 years living in the Old Stone House. We still love it. We also discovered the house is much older than thought -1850. So it was standing while the Civil War raged and the Confederates marched nearby on their way to York and then Gettysburg.
Big Walter is chipping away at our new basement bathroom, we now have a shower that doesn’t leak! We singlehandedly liquidated Home Depot’s stash of clearance trees. We are hopeful the spring will unfold happy new crabapples and willow oaks. We made a trip to Little Rock this summer. I think we picked the hottest week of the summer to go but everyone had a good visit and no one got carsick!
Walter is in 2nd grade. Over the past year he has become quite a proficient reader. He burns the midnight oil pouring over Star Wars books and whatever else he has brought home from the library. Rosie is in Kindergarten. She is breezing through her math book; I can hardly keep up with her. They both have been learning about American history and all the States and Capitals. We are proud of what they have retained. The two of them (I can hear them now) always play together. A princess drives a tank or Hess truck. Stuffed animals prepare for space travel or to visit Doc McStuffins. Somehow they mesh each other’s favorite toys to play together.
Little Walter, I think, has won over Rose’s heart for the singer Keith Green. Some of you will ask who is Keith Green? Keith Green was a Christian singer or par and friends with Bob Dylan. (A name you are more likely to know.) He was a prolific musician and songwriter in the 70s and early 80s. He wrote a treasure trove of worship songs. I read an autobiography about him many years ago and it literally transformed my life. So every once in awhile, usually around Easter, I pull out Keith Green. Walter just grew to love Keith Green’s music. He has many songs memorized. Rosie not so much, she would groan. But over the last couple weeks her tune has changed. I catch her singing along. She seems to love his music now. Keith Green died in a plane crash 35 years ago but what a legacy he left! His music is played in station wagons & minivans across America and churches throughout the world. YouTube is full of him. People are still listening and having their hearts changed, transformed and renewed. I am thankful my kids are among them.
Our real highlights are the little lights that shine in the hearts of our children as they play together. They shine when life looks a little dim and remind us as they sing along with Keith, “Oh Lord Your are Beautiful”, “There is a Redeemer” and “You Put this Love in My Heart” and these are all messages that are as timeless today as they were in 1979 and are the same truths that have been sung to a different tunes over the past 2000 years…
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2018 and may your heart be full of His Beauty and Love because -There is a Redeemer.
Blessings,
Walter, Liz, Walter and Rose
