by Abigail Alleman | Sep 20, 2013 | Abba Heart, Beauty, Family, Hope, Mama's Heart, Writing
Go :: She just turned 4 this week. Yet limbs and words and imagination speak to 16 at least. I remember when she was born. I told her the story on her birthday night and how she couldn’t wait to push herself into the world. Ready to take it on with all of it’s mess...
by Abigail Alleman | May 17, 2013 | Family, Gospel, Hungary, Living for Him, The Journey, Writing
Go:: A la la here and a doo doo there And an English song here and a Hungarian there or even a Spanish one these days as I prepare to use this language as I haven’t in a year. A worship song to pull us together and to Him in our car as we wax the wheels and...
by Abigail Alleman | Mar 22, 2013 | Family, Home, The Journey, Writing
Go :: At times they come in waves, these remembrances of days gone by… Some times I remember a smell and I am transported… Like the clean, upholstered furniture smell of my grandparents’ house or the earthy smell of cow manure or the baking smell of homemade italian...
by Abigail Alleman | Feb 22, 2013 | Beauty, Family, Heritage, Mothers, The Journey, Writing
Go :: I can still remember that morning that she taught me how to make my bed with ‘hospital corners.’ In the neat tuck in of a sheet that hundreds of times her beloved hands did in those years of nursing at a busy city hospital. I don’t know why it is one of...
by Abigail Alleman | Jan 19, 2013 | Abba Heart, Family, Fear, Hope, The Journey, Writing
Go :: These days I’ve been kissing three sweet little heads. Been nursing the sick and loving away the tears and my heart is swelling for the love of these three priceless gifts. Who knew a heart could expand and the meaning of the cherished ones swell to...
by Abigail Alleman | Nov 30, 2012 | Advent, Beauty, Family, Hope, The Journey, Writing
I hold you close and tight against my heart, my soul. My new, brave little wonder. Your journey in coming into the world began on the other side of the ocean. And ended in a new land, new home, on this side of the ocean. And we choose the brave thing, this bringing...
