Alcuin of York's prayer::June 4

Yesterday, as I was reading searching for sunday, I came upon the following prayer by Alcuin of York and I fell in love with it:

God, go with us. Help us to be an honor to the Church.

Give us the grace to follow Christ’s word,

to be clear in our task and careful in our speech.

Give us open hands and joyful hearts.

Let Christ be on our lips.

May our lives reflect a love of truth and compassion.

Let no one come to us and go away sad.

May we offer hope to the poor,

and solace to the disheartened.

Let us so walk before God’s people,

that those who follow us might come into his kingdom.

Let us sow living seeds, words that are quick with life,

that faith may be the harvest in people’s hearts.

In word and in example let your light shine

in the dark like the morning star.

Do not allow the wealth of the world or its enchantment

flatter us into silence as to your truth.

Do not permit the powerful, or judges,

or our dearest friends

to keep us from professing what is right.

Amen.
♥ Melody

Aiden wants to be my neighbor::June 2

The other day, Karen told me that Aiden said that he is going to live in (my little town) when he grows up. So I asked Aiden about it.

"So, when you are a grown-up, you are going to live in (my little town)?"

"Yep. I'm going to be your neighbor."

"Oh! So you are going to live next door to me?"

"No, I'm going to live in your house."

"You are going to live in my house with me?"

"Uh huh."

"You like my house so much you want to live in it?"

"Yep."

"What do you like about it?"

"I like alllll of the stairs that go upstairs. And I like that door in the basement. I remember seeing you in that room when I was 4."

He is obsessed with the door in my basement that leads to the darkroom (yep, the guy who lived here first was a photographer) and the bedroom (we use it for storage).

Cute, cute boy.

When I told Josh this same story, he said, "Like father, like son." :)
♥ Melody

22/52::"At Graduation"

A portrait of my child, once a week, every week, in 2015
♥ Melody