Oct 19, 2026 · 36 min · 10 segments
In Episode 12 of **Around the Table with Erin**, we sit down with author Renee Toon to explore her book, *My Journey, HiStory*, and the powerful life lessons that can emerge from our most difficult…
There was another chapter you said you want to dive into a little bit more and I got stuck on the grief part of it.
Cause you know, I've got a
Yes.
It came as a result of, um, I was sitting in, in my bedroom and I had this, um, picture on my wall and it was of this mother, um, I thought she was cradling a baby.
And you could see off in the distance this beautiful landscape down the hill and a little house, a quaint house in the countryside.
And so what I wrote on in the first phrase is, there's a needlepoint tapestry that hangs on the sage green wall of my bedroom.
And as I gaze at the Victorian dress mother cradling her child, sitting under the shady branches of a lush green tree, I see the backdrop of country home with a white picket fence and a dusty road.
And in the forefront, the mother's elegant dress is engulfed by majestic roses, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And when I gaze at this picture, I'm reminded of a phrase that I heard many years ago Life is like a tapestry and our lives, the threads that we've in and out of the God created masterpiece.
And, um, To me, we oftentimes will look at the front of a beautiful picture like that and we'll go, oh my gosh, look how they weaved in that crimson rose color there.
There was another chapter you said you want to dive into a little bit more and I got stuck on the grief part of it.
Cause you know, I've got a
Yes.
It came as a result of, um, I was sitting in, in my bedroom and I had this, um, picture on my wall and it was of this mother, um, I thought she was cradling a baby.
And you could see off in the distance this beautiful landscape down the hill and a little house, a quaint house in the countryside.
And so what I wrote on in the first phrase is, there's a needlepoint tapestry that hangs on the sage green wall of my bedroom.
And as I gaze at the Victorian dress mother cradling her child, sitting under the shady branches of a lush green tree, I see the backdrop of country home with a white picket fence and a dusty road.
And in the forefront, the mother's elegant dress is engulfed by majestic roses, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And when I gaze at this picture, I'm reminded of a phrase that I heard many years ago Life is like a tapestry and our lives, the threads that we've in and out of the God created masterpiece.
And, um, To me, we oftentimes will look at the front of a beautiful picture like that and we'll go, oh my gosh, look how they weaved in that crimson rose color there.
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