a bus full of joy
Our bus driver Russell is special. When our career took off in 2008 and we first started having to travel all across the country and...
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this life i live
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Nov 12, 2015
one more
Three years ago I had to say goodbye to one of my very best friends—Tim Johnson. Tim and I had been buddies since I first came to Nashville.
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Nov 9, 2015
an answer to prayer
We prayed. We all prayed. God answered. At 4 a.m. on Friday morning we rushed Joey to the hospital in Muncie. Her pain had become too...
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Nov 6, 2015
love makes your hair fall off
Like lots of other folks last night, we were with family and friends holding hands and praying for unexplainable healing and complete...
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Nov 3, 2015
four rings and a baby
When we got married in 2002, Joey not only took on my name, she also took on my two teenage daughters, Heidi and Hopie as her own. At the...
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Oct 31, 2015
for better or worse
For better or worse. I said those words to her at the altar on June 15, 2002. Today and each day since our wedding day I try to show her.
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Oct 23, 2015
enough
Sometimes there just aren’t enough surgeries—or doctors—or chemotherapies—or prayers. And you have to wipe the tears from your cheeks and...
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Oct 13, 2015
Josephine
Joey has had a rough last week or so since we’ve been home. But the last couple of days have been much better and her sweet smile and...
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Oct 2, 2015
ring the bell
After five long weeks of chemo and radiation, Joey got to ring the bell today… They have a ceremony at CTCA where when someone finishes...
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Sep 10, 2015
forty horses
On Monday while we were home from the hospital, we celebrated my beautiful wife Joey’s first 40 years of life for her birthday with family..
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Aug 31, 2015
a song to sing
My wife Joey still has a song to sing. In fact, she has lots of songs that she wants to sing in the future.
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Aug 18, 2015
atlanta at last
We made the drive down to the Cancer Treatment Center of America just outside of Atlanta for the next step in Joey's cancer journey...
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Aug 5, 2015
healing at home
It’s been over three weeks since my last blog post and update on my bride. Not because anything is wrong – honestly, it’s just because...
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Jul 15, 2015
undercover angels
This morning Indiana and I walked from the hotel to the hospital to have breakfast with Joey in her room. Afterwards, when Indy started...
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Jul 12, 2015
a year ago
I woke up today thinking about where we were a year ago today. So I opened up the calendar and saw we were in Alaska...
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Jul 10, 2015
a post surgery post
As I sit here next to Joey’s hospital bed, there are bouquets of flowers lining the nurses desk outside her room door (they can’t bring...
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Jul 9, 2015
this is the day
No, this is not the day that I would’ve made. But God knows better than I do. He sees the bigger picture. He is writing our story, not me.
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Jun 19, 2015
stage 4 love
Stage 4 cervical cancer. The doctors say there is a 9 cm tumor in Joey’s sigmoid colon. Even though the cancer is now in the colon, they...
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Jun 14, 2015
a prayer for cancer
God has a plan, and His plan is our plan. Each day that we’re given is a beautiful gift from Him to us. Here's what we pray...
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Apr 17, 2015
making a movie
The making of my film, "Finding Josephine" has been taking up a lot of time lately while in VA making the movie.
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Apr 12, 2015
a year of firsts
I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s happened in our world since I started this blog. How much my life has changed and how I had no...
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Mar 19, 2015
hawaii five-O
This year, for my upcoming fiftieth birthday, Joey arranged for us all to go spend one week on Oahu and one week on the Big Island.
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Dec 26, 2014
twas the day after Christmas
As we say goodbye to Christmas and start waving farewell to 2014, Joey and I are reminded that for most of the last year, we weren’t sure...
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Aug 12, 2014
internet in heaven
A couple of weeks ago, we took a family trip to Alaska. We were actually part of a music cruise with some other wonderful country music...
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