A Wedding in the Walnut Grove
A wedding! The third grandchild ( third child of Dan and Nancy) is now 
creating a new limb to our family tree. Lillian and Shiloh’s story goes back ten or eleven years ago when the Brock and Swihart family first met. Even then, it seems, there were sparks. But little did they express that interest until just a few months ago. What joy it was to celebrate their wedding with them. Lillian carried flowers that she had grown in her garden; we shared cherry pie that she and her friends had baked; and the couple drove off in a vehicle that Shiloh and his friends had “constructed.”
Creativity abounds in this couple.
Marriage. God’s plan. The two become one. And the story grows.
Judd and I are celebrating our 50th this year. We were once the bride and groom creating a limb on the Noble Swihart tree. We had no idea those many years ago how our story would unfold. At this wedding in the walnut grove we held our two great-grandchildren.
Along with a new grand-daughter, Sophie (Derrick and Carrie’s first baby), the joys of babies and marriage fill our hearts.
For the moment, God has wrapped us in a cocoon of contentment.
Nancy Swihart
I am a mother of three, grandma (Oma) of eleven, and wife of a wise and energetic husband. We are retired (me from teaching, Judd from counseling) and are enjoying a time of reflection, a time of volunteering and serving, and a time of stretching to meet the new challenges of ordering our days that we may present to Him hearts of wisdom.