BU Homecoming!!

This past weekend was my last BU homecoming experience as a student! Next homecoming...I'll be in the "alumni" crowd! It has gone by so fast. Tanner helped my mom and three sisters travel all the way to wacky Waco for a weekend full of green and gold!! Goodness it was so refreshing to have them in my city for a bit! Oh, and did you know that Baylor has the largest homecoming parade in the nation! Impressive...and the little girls loved it.

Comments

[Doug Jensen]

Thanks for sharing some of your life with us - it means probably more to us than at times you would think. Have been a fan of your dad for 20 years and have heard some of those family stories. We were at the Kennewick concert and I was blessed to be able to share with my 12 year-old (a new song to her) but a song that I wrote to her in her newly born journal - Fingerprints of God. Thanks for being available to be used of God even when you don't know it.
Doug, Rebekka, Karlin and Narnia

[apostle]

What an adorable young couple you are. So glad that you got to spend some time together. You're correct in saying that your college years have gone quickly! In just a little over a month, you'll be a graduate and you'll be back in Nashville starting a whole new phase of your life. It seems as though you just did the "whole new life" thing in Waco about 15 minutes ago. :) Time moves faster with each passsing year. Enjoy these last few weeks of studenthood. We're always praying.

[Renee]

So Precious Emily~

I wrote a long note on your dad's last blog effort ( which hopefully you will have a chance to read), but you toured us around "kamp" this summer. At the time, I struggled with whether or not I should ask you the question I wanted to ask you - it wasn't until I received our latest Shaohannah's Hope that I realized that it was indeed - you! I was so glad to find you and your dad both had blogs tonight, I guess b/c I felt like I had missed an opportunity to tell you what a blessing his ministry has been in my life and now my children's lives as well! Thank you for being so precious to Hannah and Aspen Grace! Our latest blessing was born recently- you can head over to our blog and see her picture if you scroll back a little!
I will enjoy keeping in touch with your life and ministry this way - it will mean so much more now that we have met and spoken with you!
In HIM,
Renee

[Barbie]

Wow, y'alls homecoming is sort of late! Hmmm or maybe ours here at TCU was early this year...in September. Come to think of it, ours was Oct 28 last year...hmmm.

Anyhow, I must say I am TRULY jealous that you are in your last semester. I'll be done in August (go me for changing majors) instead of May. I'm pretty much dying to be done with homework. Which I'm avoiding right now.

Good thing you're not at SMU....then I'd have to hate you by association since they are our 'rival' so to speak. Plus, Baylor Bears are SOOOO much better than some silly horse! Sic 'Em Bears! and Go Horned Frogs!

[stephanie galloway]

I am glad you all got to hang out with each other.I didn't know that Baylor had the largest homecoming parade? I do now and I think that is great.I am glad ya'll had a good time Emily.Many blessings to you and Tanner.Take care.

[GG]

Proud of yah, girlie! ...they're gonna MISS YOU!!!

[becka]

i feel so weird writing on someone's wall i've never met, but i did get to just meet your oldest brother yesterday at a concert. what a blessing your father's music has been in my life, and my family's life. even though i am a year older than you, i like to say i look up to you in way, i see that you have big dreams for your life and i wish we could meet in person someday to sit down and have a cup of coffee and discuss the things God is doing in our lives. well keeping going after God. and you two do look so very cute together...how long have you been dating?

[Ragan Story]

i hope ya had a good homecoming i am looking foward to that "college experience" next year. i have wanted to go to Baylor for the last 4 years but this year when i was lookin at colleges it just cost a little more than i wanted to take out in student loans but i am happy i still am going to a Christian school, Liberty U in VA. i kinda still wish i was going to Baylor but when i visited Liberty i knew that is where God wants me to be.(even if it is 9 hours away!)

[Brian Cooper]

Congrats on your new apartment and on graduating in a few weeeks, that's awesome, i'm still a year away. :-)

[Cassy]

You guys are sooooo cute together!!!!!
I hope every thing is going well in your life. I'll be praying for you and your family

[Jordan]

Awwww!!! You guys are such a cute couple!!!! I just think you guys are SO awesome!!!! God bless you guys and your friends and family!!!!

[Mary]

First let me say that my heart breaks for you today, I know the love you must have had for this sweet young little girl and she will be missed forever.

My sister was run over by a car and killed over 27 years ago. She was goofing around and jumped on the hood of a car and when she started to slip off the young man driving the car thought if he hit the gas it would throw her back against the window. Well, it didn't work and she was run over etc.

The reason I tell you this is, instantly we forgave the young man who did this. We embraced him and we loved him and had no hate in our hearts for him. I believe that we healed as a family in a miraculous way because we had such mercy and compassion for him. The greatest gift we can give someone who has been involved in this sort of accident is life long forgiveness.

God be with you all and rejoice that Maria is now in the arms of our loving Lord...she is in paradise!!!

[Maze Family]

I did not realize you were a BU student until I read it on here. I am a big fan of SCC and knew you were in college but didn't know where. I am a Texan! Not far from Waco in fact. I wonder if you knew or knew of a girl named Katie Moseley that was a student at Baylor U for a short while in 2006? She was a freshman but her life was cut short by a tragic drunk driver accident. She was one of 'ours'. A graduate from where my sons attend school and where I work. It was such an awful time for our community when we lost her. Just wondering if you knew her or knew of her. God Bless You.

[kevin wayne garrison]

Dear Emily,
Congratulations on your engagement and graduation from Baylor I take it after a quick peruse of your blog. Just wanted to express my condolences about the loss of Maria Sue. I tried to write a comment on the main page for Maria, but don't know if it was ever accepted and today, with Maria and your family still heavy on my heart I felt led to write you a few words. I am a graduate of Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. When I graduated back in 2000, my father died in July of 2000, a month after getting my degree. Before that I had broken up with my long time girlfriend and also my paw paw (great grandfather died in January of you guessed it 2000). It was a tough time for me and my walk with the Lord was struggling dealing with all the grief. I wasnt plugged in so well to my church at the time so I felt all alone. But God allowed me to meet a man who loves Jesus with ALL his heart and HE ministered to me in those dark days and helped pick me up. I don't know how the healing will begin for you and your family, but I know the Lord is nearby and HE will be at your side. I live in Guatemala. I am a English Teacher-Choir Director Missionary. I have a 2 year old daughter. My wife is an indigenous Mayan from the town where I have been working for 4 years (San Marcos La Laguna). I was online chatting with my mother when she referred me to a radio station that she listens to. So, I hop on the site and there is a picture of SC2 and Maria and so I click on it out of curiosity and read the sad news about Maria Sue. Over the course of days I shared with all my students the tragedy and loss and we prayed for Maria. Here I can talk about the Lord and share whenever I want, I could never do that in Alabama sadly. I brought my wife up to watch a few of the memorial videos put together and we cried together listening to Cinderella. So, don't think you are alone in the grieving because we as Christians share in the sorrow and in the joy. We have been praying for ya'll and will continue to. Your father has ministered to me through his music. I remember back in 94 how we did a skit to When You Are A Soldier and how the Lord's Spirit moved in that service. The other day I was talking to my students about how sometimes there is a hidden blessing in times that we think are so dark, I dont know what that would be for ya'll but I know when my father died, I was so sad, but then I met Scott Roney, my spiritual mentor. Well let me get this off to you. When or if you get time in reading and responding to these comments please get back to me and let me know you received this Emily. God Bless You and Please pray for me here in Guatemala. Sometimes I feel all alone, I haven't been able to plug into a church here due to what I would call the members playing church here, but the Lord is with me leading and guiding but your prayers would be appreciated!! Thanks again and know there are so many people praying and thinking about your family.
Sincerely, Kevin Wayne Garrison, Christian Missionary in San Marcos La Laguna Guatemala

adíos mi hermana en Díos....

[abigail]

hey.
omg i want to go there when i get out of high school!!!!
how cool is that!is awesome lol.
im sorry for your loss i know you heard it alot but im so sorry i wish i could just hug you but i know God is and he is hugging all of ya but im praying and hoping everyone will not forget about this but have good memories about maria and know that we will have her in our hearts forever and she is with God now and we will see her soon!i love ya and praying for ya take care<3
-Abigail

ps.Baylor rocks!!

[wende]

Hi Emily
I just want to say how sorry I feel about the loss of your little sister. You only had her a short while. I am sure that she is smiling down on you right now. She has so many up in Heaven that will take care of her. Mostly our Heavenly Father is the best one to take care of her, he is holding her in his arms now. It was cute to hear about Maria's reaction to her engagement, asking "so what did you say". Out of the mouths of babes. Charish the times you had with Maria. And I pray that your family will become much closer because of this. Please don't be angry with your brother. I believe this was a true accident and he must be very overwhelmed because of this. Maybe blaming himself. It is a hard thing to get over in such a short period of time. My one cousin accidently run down a little girl once, and she died. It took many years for him to over come that incident in his life. Please except my condonences. And give your family my love. And tell your dad he is a wonderful Christian musician, and singer. I saw him on the program DOC that Billy Ray Cyrus was on. And Steven did a very good role. You don't know me, but we are family, because we are the family of God. The Christian Family!

[Caitlin Bird]

Hey Emily!
Congrats on the engagement!
Your brothers have some wild hairdos. I hope you do well in Baylor and have a good summer.
I think your little sis Maria was a extra special girl...That was a funny movie of youyr dad, Maria, and Stevie Joy washing the dishes.
Oh, and by the way, good luck planning your wedding.