First off, we are first cousins. Our dads are both lifelong native Phoenicians and we have followed suit. So far. Our family has always been very tight-knit. Just how we operate. We have all attended the Apostolic Christian Church [hereby referred to as the AC church, or its attendants as AC's] for our entire lives and know nothing else. I love it to pieces and cannot picture myself anyplace else. A huge tradition of ours is cooking and feeding the people we love. If there is any sort of an AC event, you can expect food to be involved somehow. Good food, to boot. It's how we roll. So naturally, cooking is very engrained in me and Amanda. Truthfully, food is our love language. It's our primary method of communicating love to the people in our lives. The main reason we love to cook is watching the people we love enjoy the fruits [ha! punny!] of our labor. It has always and will always mean a lot to us.
On to other things, namely the title of this blog. Another AC tradition is singing a capella hymns as a church. Full out, 4-harmony, old-fashioned hymns. Not only do we do it as a church on a weekly basis, our family also sings together quite often. So hymns are, and always have been, a huge part of our lives, a fact that I truly adore. Back to my point, the title of this blog; Sweeter Than All. That is the title of a hymn in one of our hymnals [#132 in the Hymns of Zion, for you AC's reading this]. My favorite verse goes like this:
"Though a vessel I may be, broken and small, broken and small;
Yet His blessings fall on me, sweeter than all, sweeter than all,
Jesus is now and ever will be sweeter than all the world to me;
Since I heard His loving call, sweeter than all, sweeter than all."
Such a remarkable message and a fantastic melody, as well. So now you know the reasoning behind our blog's name. As to why this blog exists? Well, perhaps that one's for another time. Hopefully this lengthy post helps you understand Amanda and I a little bit better.
Kristin.
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