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Check out my latest post, Between Heaven
And The Real World: My Story, written by Mary Beth Chapman’s husband,
Steven Curtis Chapman!!****
Mary
Beth Chapman is wife of Steven Curtis Chapman, whom was the first one in the
Chapman family to have a book published. In her book, Choosing To SEE, is mostly about how she, Steven, and her five
other children dealt with the death of their daughter/sister, Maria Chapman,
who was tragically killed by a car.
When
Mary Beth Chapman grew up in Ohio in a Christian home with loving parents along
with her older brother and sister. After graduating from high school, Marry
Beth attended Anderson University where she met a handsome young man named
Steven Curtis Chapman. What she really loved about Steven Curtis Chapman
besides being a Christian was that he had the same last name as her! Weird!! Anyways, Mary Beth married
Steven when she was twenty years old and did not plan to have children until
later in life until she got pregnant after being married for six months. OOPS!
So
. . . since I have mentioned the majority of the Chapman life in my previous
blog post, Between Heaven And The Real
World: My Story, written by Steven, I will continue by comparing Steven’s
and Mary Beth’s books. First, in Steven’s book, he wrote about everything! What
I mean by, everything, was: life growing up as a kid, going to college, getting
married and having kids, adoption, Maria’s death, and establishing an orphanage
for children with special needs in China. What Mary Beth mostly talked about in
her book was the death of Maria, the youngest daughter in the family, to what
happened before and after her funeral, and the marriages of her two oldest
children, Emily and Caleb. Mary Beth also talked about her experiences of
adopting three girls from China and also how she and Steven established an
orphanage for special needs children in China as well. Over all, she never went
into a lot of detail of her life growing up in Ohio and about her high school
life, except for the fact that she did mention that she lost her virginity but
never any detail of what happened.
In
concluding, if you have read, or soon will read, Steven Curtis Chapman’s book
then I would suggest to read Mary Beth’s book, Choosing To SEE, and SEE what you can learn from Mary Beth’s
perspective of life dealing with family, tragedy, and dealing with grief.
2) Why is the word SEE an important word in the Chapman household?
3) How did SEE become an important word in the family?
