The ongoing saga of Christ's redeeming work in a world weary heart. And also some of the quirks of life with a household of eleven children, seventeen and under!
Stauffer Family 2005
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Taken in our Backyard last night despite two very grumpy and tired little ones. Also our new dog, Bently's first time in the frame.
If you are just entering this story, you may find it beneficial for your comprehension to read the first 3 parts. I will try to finish this for all you who just can’t wait for the end of the story when you already know the outcome! :-) I warn you it’s long! I broke out in a cold sweat!! “Ah, this is Japheth Stauffer from Blackduck MN, and I would like to talk to you about what has been happening this past week. You see, ………” (laughing) ”I told Aimee that she should give me a list of those guys that are acceptable and who isn’t before she leaves. That’s why I almost said, ‘Let me see if your on the list!’” (I had known prior to the call that I was not the first to ask for Aimee’s friendship!) We talked for about 15 minutes and I shared my heart and its desire to be a support to Aimee and the love that I had for her. I also shared that if he gave his blessing and I won her heart, I would marry her and not defraud her by leading her on and then d...
What to do? Being married has lot’s of problems. One of which is this, when you have a cold, do you still kiss your wife goodbye in the morning as you leave for work? If you don’t, you never know if you’ll get in a fatal accident and never have kissed her goodbye! On the other hand, if you kissed her, she might have a nasty cold for the funeral!! Argh!! What to do!!!! Now I know why all single people smile all the time!
Ok, it’s my fault I haven’t posted in a while, but let me fill you in. We had about 600 people at the funeral and ended up feeding about 500 of them. It was a moving service with her brother Dawson leading the singing and her other brother, Nolan, giving a short synopsis of her life. A good friend of our church, Keith Yates or affectionately known as “Bear,” shared two songs. Bear is blind and was rejected by his family as a baby and grew up in a bunch of homes. It was so neat, to see the joy on his face when he came to the last verse of looking forward to heaven, even after he struggled so much with his emotions the first few verses. My father brought a message on the fact the “Precious in the eyes of the Lord are the death of His saints!” Click in the picture for a larger view. Afterwards, the pall bearers loaded the casket into the back of our van for the trip out to the cemetery. It was a drive of almost 30 miles since we had to use the largest church in the area. We had c...
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