Tuesday, July 29, 2014

A Love Story of Mine and Jamie's

A Love Story of Mine and Jamie’s
(This love story of mine and Jamie's will remain as mine, in my heart, forever.  I consider the written version my "plates of gold," or valuable record.  This part of the record is sealed, but you can still see the story's chapter headings, pictures, song lyrics, and social media presence of Jamie).
Table of Contents

1.      Our First Date
2.      How We first Met
3.      Emails About the First Date: Jamie on Kissing
4.      Secret Reconnaissance of Jamie
5.      The Problems with Emailing Jamie: Too Attractive
6.      Feelings Measuring Tool (FMT)/Compatibility Test and Conclusion
7.      Neuroticism and Tumors
8.      Missing Jamie’s Friendship
9.      Lashing Out
10.  Bad Aspects about Jamie?
11.  The Hypothetical
12.  Bruce’s Bandage Changes
13.  Running After the Bus
14.  The Positive Emails
15.  The Stupor of Thought, Peace, and Resentment at the Temple Email
16.  The Positive Emails Continue
17.  Our First Hand Holding, Without Wendy
18.  The Start of Our Exclusivity
19.  Our First Kiss
20.  Clarifications about Pursuing Jamie
21.  Added Details on the First Kiss: Dancing at the Haunted Mansion
22.  Our First Bandage Change
23.  Should I Marry Her if I Only Get Two Years?
24.  The Night of the Proposal
25.  Answer for My Proposal
26.  The History of the Titanium Wedding Ring Band
27.  The Wedding Necklace Story
28.  I’m Her Don Quixote
29.  Pre-marriage Letter from Jamie to my Parents
30.  The Best Day of Our Lives: Our Wedding and Honeymoon
31.  Our Last Bandage Change

APPENDIX
Good Night Christmas Songs and Lyrics
Jamie’s YouTube Presence
Articles About Jamie
Obituary Page Link
Chapter 1
Our First Date
Chapter 2
How We First Met

Chapter 3
Emails about the First Date: Jamie on Kissing
Chapter 4
Secret Reconnaissance of Jamie
Chapter 5
The Problems with Emailing Jamie: Too Attractive
Chapter 6

The Feelings Measuring Tool (FMT)/Compatibility Test and Conclusion



















Chapter 7
Neuroticism and Tumors
Chapter 8
Missing Jamie’s Friendship
Chapter 9
Lashing Out
Chapter 10
Bad Aspects about Jamie?
Chapter 11
The Hypothetical
Chapter 12
Bruce’s Bandage Changes
Chapter 13
Running After the Bus
Chapter 14
The Positive Emails
Chapter 15

The Stupor of Thought, Peace, and Resentment at the Temple Email

Chapter 16
The Positive Emails Continue
Chapter 17
Our First Hand Holding, without Wendy
Chapter 18
The Start of Our Exclusivity
Chapter 19
Our First Kiss
Chapter 20
Clarifications about Pursuing Jamie
Chapter 21

Added Details on the First Kiss: Dancing at the Haunted Mansion

Chapter 22
Our First Bandage Change
Chapter 23
Should I Marry Her if I Only Get Two Years?
Chapter 24
The Night of the Proposal
Chapter 25
Answer for My Proposal
Chapter 26
The History of the Titanium Wedding Ring Band
(I keep it on my right hand because a friend suggested I always remember her by making two "O"s with each hand, have them touch in the center at the tips of my fingers, making an infinity sign with my hands.  When she was alive, she was on the left side of infinity.  Now that she's passed on, she's on the other side of infinity.  I really, really liked that symbol and thinking.  I didn't want to retire the ring, so, this is a good compromise.  It doesn't fit on my ring finger, but seems to go nicely on the pinkie finger)
Chapter 27
The Wedding Necklace Story
Chapter 28
I’m Her Don Quixote
Chapter 29
Pre-marriage Letter from Jamie to my Parents
Chapter 30
The Best Day of Our Lives: Our Wedding and Honeymoon
Chapter 31
Our Last Bandage Change
(Jamie playing at Campus Plaza, pretending to be a deeply sleeping princess needing only true love's kiss to wake her)
APPENDIX

Each of the songs on Jamie’s Christmas CD carry the message of her testimony about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

The first song, Walking In the Air, is a song that had special meaning to Jamie and her brother Ben, who had passed away before Jamie produced any of her music.  Read it as a tribute to Ben and her faith that he lives on in spirit.  She truly is walking in the air with Ben and people have seen them together after her passing, I’ve been told.
Good Night Christmas Lyrics

Walking In the Air

We’re walking in the air,
We’re floating in the moonlit sky:
The people far below are sleeping as we fly.
I’m holding very tight,
I’m riding in the midnight blue;
I’m finding I can fly so high above with you.
On across the world,
The villages go by like dreams,
The rivers and the hills, the forests and the streams.
Children gaze openmouthed, taken by surprise;
Nobody down below believes their eyes.
We’re surfing in the air,
We’re swimming in the frozen sky;
We’re drifting over icy mountains floating by.
Suddenly, swooping low on an ocean deep,
Rousing up a mighty monster from his sleep;
We’re walking in the air, We’re dancing in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly.

Christmas Lullaby

On midnight eve, first Christmas day,
The Bethlehem stable, the manger of hay.
What do they say the animals say,
On midnight eve, first Christmas day?

The shepherd’s dog speaks of a quiet night,
Crowned with hosannas, the stars clear light,
And how this child will shepherd all,
With cross and crown and staff of light.

And the cattle are lowing a song of love,
His song of redeeming love.
They warm the babe and lullaby,
His song of redeeming love.

King’s camels proud are kneeling low
To reverence the King of their Kings with a bow.
The ache they feel, their journeys pain,
How small to His, this baby king.

Chorus

Small burro whispers he carried a queen.
But she has born the Savior King.
Mary’s pain and Joseph’s praise
This mother and father the child will raise.

Chorus

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

Jesu, joy of man's desiring
Holy wisdom, love most bright

Repeated

Son of God, our flesh hath fashioned
With the glow of faith impassioned
For our sins thou hast atoned,
Lord and Savior, now enthroned.

Still, Still, Still

Still, still, still, one can hear the falling snow.
For all is hushed, the world is sleeping,
Holy star its vigil keeping.
Still, still, still, one can hear the falling snow.

Sleep, sleep, sleep, tis the eve of out Savior’s birth.
The night is peaceful all around you,
Close your eyes let sleep surround you.
Sleep, sleep, sleep, tis the eve of our Savior’s birth.

Dream, dream, dream, of the joyous day to come.
While guardian angels without number,
Guard you as you sweetly slumber.
Dream, dream, dream, of the joyous day to come.

O Holy Night

Oh holy night!
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of the dear Savior's birth!
Long lay the world in sin and error pining
Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary soul rejoices
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn!

Fall on your knees
Oh hear the angel voices
Oh night divine
Oh night when Christ was born
Oh holy night
Oh night divine

Led by the light of Faith serenely beaming
With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand
So led by light of a star sweetly gleaming
Here came the wise men from Orient land
The King of Kings lay thus in lowly manger
In all our trials born to be our friend.
He knows our needs, to our weakness He’s no stranger.
Behold, your king before the lowly bend.
Behold, your King, your king, before Him bend.
Truly He taught us to love one another
His law is love and His gospel is peace
Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother
And in His name all oppression shall cease
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord, oh praise His name forever.
His power and glory evermore proclaim.
His power and glory evermore proclaim.

Mary’s Lullaby

All mine in your loveliness baby, all mine.
All mine in your holiness baby divine.
Sing on herald angels in chorus sublime;
Sing on and adore, for tonight you are mine.

The wise men are coming to worship their King,
The shepherds are kneeling their homage to bring.
Out yonder the star over Judah will keep.
No harm will befall thee, then sleep baby sleep.

O let me enfold thee, my baby tonight,
While legions are singing in joyous delight.
A new star has risen to hail thee divine,
For you are a king, but tonight you are mine.

Away spectered future of sorrow and plight,
Away to the years that must follow tonight.
The pangs of Gethsemane, let them be dim,
The red drops on Calvary, not Lord, for Him!

O let me enfold thee, my baby tonight,
While legions are singing in joyous delight.
A new star has risen to hail thee divine,
For you are a king, but tonight you are mine.

Sing on herald angels in chorus sublime;
Sing on and adore, for tonight you are mine.

Ave Maria

Ave Maria, gratia plena,
Dominus, tecum,
benedicta tu in mulieribus
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.
Sancta Maria, sancta Maria,
Maria, ora pro nobis nobus peccatoribus,
nuncet in hora, in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen! Amen!

Translation—

Hail Mary, full of grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

He Shall Be born

He shall be born, He shall be born
He shall be born of Mary at Jerusalem.
She, a chosen vessel, she, a precious one,
Overshadowed, she’ll conceive and bear a Son.

He shall suffer, He shall know our pain,
He shall be born and die and live again!
He shall come to earth, Yea, the Son of God,
Born of Mary, at Jerusalem.

He shall be born, He shall be born
He shall be born of Mary at Jerusalem.
He shall come to earth, yea, the Son of God!
O may his peace rest on thee,
This time forth and forever.
He shall be born,
O may his peace rest on thee.

Saint Stephen’s Day

Come, child with me, we’re off to the attic
To find old Christmas, where last year we packed it.
It’s up the ladder, just under the roof,
Where lands the sleigh and reindeer hoof.

Smell dust and boxes—cedar and pine
Like camels and desert—myrrh and wine.
Hear shepherd and angel—oh crimson elf,
And evergreen garland, for the mantelshelf.

Be gentle, the Family, swaddled in wool—
Shhh….the crèche….silent as snow.
And the drum and jingle, and the trumpet blast,
All purple in velvet, the shining brass.

Come the day after Christmas is Saint Stephen’s Day.
Then you and I shall put Christmas away.
We’ll box the tinsel and pull down the tree,
Then it’s off to the attic with you and me.

But we’ll keep in out hearts His healing wing—
We’ll comfort and cheer, His song to sing.
For Christmas must never be put away,
All boxed and silent for a year and a day.

This Christmastide

Green and silver, red and gold and a story born of old,
Truth and love and hope abide, this Christmastide.

Holly, ivy, mistletoe and the gently falling snow,
Truth and love and hope abide, this Christmastide.

From a simple ox’s stall came the greatest gift of all,
Truth and love and hope abide, this Christmastide.

Children sing of hope and joy at the birth of one small boy,
Truth and love and hope abide, this Christmastide.

Let the bells ring loud and clear, ring out now, for all to hear,
Truth and love and hope abide, this Christmastide.

Trumpets sound and voices raise in an endless stream of praise,
Truth and love and hope abide, this Christmastide.

Green and silver, red and gold and a story born of old,
Truth and love and hope abide, this Christmastide.

Come Unto Him

Come unto Him, all ye that labor.
Come unto him, ye that are heave laden,
And He will give you rest.

Take His yolk upon you and learn of him,
For He is meek and lowly of heart,
And ye shall find rest unto your souls.

The Angels’ Silent Night

Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright

Silent night, holy night
All is calm all is bright

Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant, tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace.
Sleep in heavenly peace.

Jamie’s YouTube Presence

Butterflyskyn

Others


Articles about Jamie

"A Talent for Touching Lives" 

"Hitting Life's High Notes"

"Singer is Coping with Life's Low Notes"
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/729431/Singer-is-coping-with-lifes-low-notes.html?pg=all

"An Orphan Disease--Jamie's Story"

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/an-orphan-disease-jamieandrsquos-story/Content?oid=2129193

"April Meservy--Mormon Artist"
http://mormonartist.net/interviews/april-meservy/

In an interview with April Meservy, she was asked the following question that you can find at the link above:

"You’ve been the recipient of several awards, have performed for many good causes, and have had the opportunity to perform in big events all over the world, including the 2002 Olympics. What are some moments that were particularly special for you?

"I would have to say being involved in concerts and events affiliated with a non-profit called USeb (United Survivors of Epidermolysis Bullosa) has been particularly special to me.
"One of my best friends, Jamie Hartley Gibson, has the rare skin disease epidermolysis bullosa (EB), and she started USeb a couple of years ago. For years I have watched her work her heart out to help spread awareness and also raise money to help those with EB.
"She puts together concerts and even holds a weeklong camp where people from all over the world with EB come together to learn new skills and enjoy being together. It’s taken her a lot of work. My experience helping out at some of these events has been meaningful to me because it reminds me how much I have and how many beautiful souls surround me.
"August 9–14 was USeb camp week, and for several days I was able to mentor a small group of my EB friends in some songwriting sessions. I had the privilege of putting lyrics they wrote to music. I was really blown away by the depth of their songs and how well they were able to write from their hearts. We actually went into the studio to record some of these songs, and it was an incredibly special thing for me.
"Another thing I’m excited about is to finish up the EP I’ve been producing for Jamie. It will be finished by November. Jamie has an angel’s voice and heart, and I think you can feel and hear that in her music in an almost tangible way."

"Jamie Gibson's Good Night Christmas"
http://ebinfoworld.faithweb.com/jamiegibson.htm


Obituary and Memorial Services Link

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