{"id":326,"date":"2008-05-22T09:59:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2008-05-22T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:00:23","slug":"steven-curtis-chapman-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Steven Curtis Chapman family"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many of you have heard by now of the tragedy yesterday in the family of Steven Curtis Chapman. If not, please see the official statement<\/a> on his website. What a horrible situation!\u00a0 They have also started a memorial website<\/a> to give you a better idea of what a special day this had been in their family before the tragedy.<\/p>\n

I have been a huge fan of Steven Curtis Chapman for many years. I prayed to receive Christ at youth camp in 1994 and the theme song for the week was “The Great Adventure” by Chapman. Over the years, we have seen him in concert and at camps and other events. He has always been most gracious. He has a huge heart for children and adoption. He and his wife have 3 children of their own and have adopted 3 girls from China.<\/p>\n

I don’t even know where you begin as a parent in this situation. They have their grief to deal with, but also the need to comfort their son.<\/p>\n

This past year some of our best friends lost a child and at the funeral, they played the song “With Hope” by Chapman. The lyrics of that song have become my prayer for the Chapman’s in the coming days…<\/p>\n

This is not at all how
\nWe thought it was supposed to be
\nWe had so many plans for you
\nWe had so many dreams
\nAnd now you’ve gone away
\nAnd left us with the memories of your smile
\nAnd nothing we can say
\nAnd nothing we can do
\nCan take away the pain
\nThe pain of losing you, but …<\/p>\n

We can cry with hope
\nWe can say goodbye with hope
\n‘Cause we know our goodbye is not the end, oh no
\nAnd we can grieve with hope
\n‘Cause we believe with hope
\n(There’s a place by God’s grace)
\nThere’s a place where we’ll see your face again
\nWe’ll see your face again<\/p>\n

And never have I known
\nAnything so hard to understand
\nAnd never have I questioned more
\nThe wisdom of God’s plan
\nBut through the cloud of tears
\nI see the Father’s smile and say well done
\nAnd I imagine you
\nWhere you wanted most to be
\nSeeing all your dreams come true
\n‘Cause now you’re home
\nAnd now you’re free, and …<\/p>\n

We have this hope as an anchor
\n‘Cause we believe that everything
\nGod promised us is true, so …<\/p>\n

So we can cry with hope
\nAnd say goodbye with hope<\/p>\n

We wait with hope
\nAnd we ache with hope
\nWe hold on with hope
\nWe let go with hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of you have heard by now of the tragedy yesterday in the family of Steven Curtis Chapman. If not, please see the official statement on his website. What a horrible situation!\u00a0 They have also started a memorial website to give you a better idea of what a special day this had been in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}