Seriously………………………..

May 5th, 2008

If you don’t know yet from reading this blog, I am fairly passionate and honest about what I think and believe. The last year has been a huge learning process for me. I started this blog, all by myself, in order to force myself to do a few things. One was to become a bit more technologically proficient without needing my husbands help every time I turn on the computer. Well, I am not where I want to be but I am light years form where I was. Another was for me to think through and articulate my thoughts about life, love, homeschooling, parenting, our family, our faith community, and following Jesus in my own words, without letting my brilliant husband do all the deep thinking and talking for me. Not that he tries to, but I tend to let him. I think it is natural for most women to hide behind their husband, so this blog has been my attempt to grow and learn and be stimulated by him and not intimidated by how well he thinks and writes etc.

Well, not to toot his horn for him, but he has some brilliant posts here, here and here. Read them for yourself. I was honored a few weeks back when he asked me to consider moving my blog over with him on our what is church site. I was shocked really. When we first moved to South Florida, the what is church site was our little flag in the vast, barren land down here. It was a small, feeble, unseen, seemingly unsuccessful attempt to see if anyone out there was thinking about some of the same things. Well, that little website found a few dear souls(both locally and globally) , who were and are thinking the exact same things that we now journey with today. They are our faith community, our allies, our friends. In the beginning the what is church website was designed to tell our story and along the way a church was born. It is an amazing thing to see 7 years later, a sustainable faith community has developed, that is not dependent on any one set of peoples effort to make it work. It just works. I can’t explain it. God did it and is doing it, not any one of us who call it home. It doesn’t need us our our story to float it along. It has its own story, its own life. We are as much a part of it as any other person who calls our little church home. We are all learning, loving, growing together and passionately putting discipleship to Jesus above anything else. Mike is still reworking and writing some pieces for the what is church site, and tweaking some technical things as well as finishing the book he is writing. It is a huge work in progress. We are raising a family with three small children, working bivocationaly and sharing our life with our church family, so there are not many hours left in the day to do essentially a full times job worth of work. So be patient it will come. (I am really speaking to myself here) So,I say all of this to say, I will be renaming and moving this blog in the next few weeks. Mike and I feel like it is now time to dig into more deeply all it is that God called us here to be and do. Not that we havn’t been doing it up until now, but that there is a special season opening up that we are willing to step into. So that is what is kicking around here. I will keep you all posted on the upcoming change. Thanks for letting me share my heart.

Peace to all~

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