about the blog name
Familiar with the song “Shimmer” by Shawn Mullins? It’s from his album entitled Soul’s Core, which was the unofficial “soundtrack” to the months that my husband and I were dating. One summer’s night we even got to see Shawn Mullins at an outdoor concert nearby. He was opening for Hootie & the Blowfish... {insert smiles or giggles}. Although there are many songs on the album that I love even more than “Shimmer”, that particular song took on more meaning a few years later, after we were married and were blessed with two children.
I was a career-oriented, working mom who was torn between responsibility to my job and missing my children each day I was at the office. Like any self-respecting parent, of course I had photos of my children in frames on my desk. After the birth of our son, I hung a b/w photo collage frame for each of them side by side on the wall of my office. For one of the photo openings, I printed our daughter’s name and the aspiration “born to shimmer…” followed by her birthdate, and for our son, the same with the expectation “…born to shine”.
Before ultimately being divinely-convicted to leave my career (as well as the compensation, sense of achievement and identitiy that came with it), for the job I was born to embrace as a more present and loving mother, one of my co-workers came to affectionately refer to my treasures as Shimmer and Shine.
In an effort to protect their privacy, when I began blogging the building of our new home at www.ahomemeanttolast.blogspot.com, these seemed the natural online names to use for them. And, each day, I continue to pray that Shimmer and Shine “are born to radiate… that they are born to live, born to love, and born to never hate…”
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