Cookies, Pears, and Thirty Years

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Some people walk into your life so quiet You barely hear them there But something in the air just shifts Like morning after rain A warm plate waiting on your desk A conversation, soft and sweet The kind of love that doesn't rush Just finds you on its feet [Chorus] You bring the grounding, bring the strength I bring the laughter and the life Together we have cried and prayed And held each other through the night We've known the joy that heaven sends And felt God's blessing from above Through every season, every tear We built a home on faith and love [Verse 2] Remember chocolate chip cookies, still warm And Asian pears you'd bring to me You memorized the thing I wore The day our story started free To Flying Saucer nights and more Then Transco Tower, city lights And Stephen, when you said you loved me Nothing else could feel so right [Chorus] You bring the grounding, bring the strength I bring the laughter and the life Together we have cried and prayed And held each other through the night We've known the joy that heaven sends And felt God's blessing from above Through every season, every tear We built a home on faith and love [Bridge] Helicopters over Hawaii A plane across the Arctic sky You take my hand when I get scared And Stephen, you're the reason why I'm not afraid to live this life With all its wild and beautiful [Verse 3] You loved my son and made him ours Then God gave us a family of four From NASA halls to Costco runs Those strong hands giving ever more Gray temples showing thirty years Of choosing us in every way You cook, you serve, you give your all I spend it — that's our favorite line But what you've given can't be bought A legacy of love, by God's design [Chorus] You bring the grounding, bring the strength I bring the laughter and the life Together we have cried and prayed And held each other through the night We've known the joy that heaven sends And felt God's blessing from above Through thirty years, through every tear We built a life on faith and love [Outro] So here's to us, Stephen Still blessed, still becoming Still building forever