Choosing To SEE written by Mary Beth Chapman

*** 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.

Trivia Questions: 

1) True or False: 

Mary Beth's first pregnancy WAS planned? 

2) Why is the word SEE an important word in the Chapman household?

3) How did SEE become an important word in the family? 

 Chapman, Mary Beth., and Ellen Vaughn. Choosing to See: A Journey of Struggle and Hope. Grand Rapids: Revell, 2011. Print.