Once a blog about a house, and still is.
Finding grace in unlikely places.
Processing current culture through the lense of the Gospel of Jesus.
Always balancing the tightrope of caring about this world, and not caring too much.
Waiting game.
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Signed enough papers to fill a moose's stomach. Gotten our inspection, soil test, and sewer scope. Now, it is in the banks hands.
Well, I've spent at least half of today trying to create a rainbow! And wouldn't you know it, it's quite hard for a human to create one. It's been pretty gloomy here in Portland, OR. So I thought why not try and create a rainbow in the place that I like the least? My kitchen sink. I played around with a flash light for A LONG TIME. But it's been so fun using my lense to soften and create beauty in my everyday mess. I'm really looking forward to experimenting more with this when the sun comes out. :) But for now, as November is upon me, there's a prayer that I like to pray while I'm at my kitchen sink: Let my work be my prayer, and my prayer my work. I'd like to include my instructor Joy's wisdom for chasing rainbows. This is wisdom that emerges after decades of practice, lessons for the soul without letting all the technicalities get in the way. 1. Keep your eyes fully open - practice the crucial art of paying attention. 2. Look to the light....
Yep, that time of year, when we go out an buy a sad dead tree and stab it into a wobbly metal stand and wrap lights and shiny stuff from it. We got two, actually. Remember that book "Indian In The Cupboard"? Same idea, but with a nubian nativity. So, bring an ornament for the tree(s) next time you stop by. Make it personal, make sure it has your name written on it somehow, so we can remember it for always. Musical choices: n*sync, Nat king Cole, Louis Armstrong, BB king, et al. (Mostly the latter. Ben and I threw up on the computer after the third boy band Christmas craptacular song) posted from Bloggeroid
For at least this past year, I've been wanting to try and put into words the beginning of a dream and how that dream became a reality. I'm not the best writer and I know that shouldn't matter but I always let it get in the way of me writing anything. The other struggle for me is that I have a lot of input in my life and not a lot of output. I love gathering information, thoughts, pictures, stories of purpose. But the thing is this, they're starting to get all muddled and I'm forgetting what their purpose was in the first place. And I really don't want to forget. I don't want to forget what my and my husband's dream was and how suddenly we've found ourselves doing a little bit of what we were made to do. So with this written piece of transition, this blog will take on a different purpose. Our house now is serving as a space for sabbaticals and rest for people involved in the never-ending work of the Gospel. These are people who have been sent out b...
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