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.
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...
I LOVED this assignment. Lucky for me, it's almost Halloween, and amos' costume worked out very nicely with David Bowie's "Space Oddity" track. "Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven, six) Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three) Check ignition and may God's love be with you (two, one, liftoff)... Here I am Floating in a tin can And I don't know what to do And I don't know what to do Except that God's love is with you Here I am again Despairing, desperate for what? For You. Find me here. You always do. You found me in the Garden Hiding in my tin can Your grace can be too much sometimes I had to shield myself. Why did you have to make me so magnificent? You sling me through space I tumble and roll, Born again on solid ground.
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
Love me some Jay Anderson rants.
ReplyDeleteoh gosh i want to be there. not so much helping per se, but just to say funny things and have them recorded and all that stuff.
ReplyDeleteok ok. and to help. of course.
dude i want you here to hang out and make funny comments. if work is done, that would be ok too.
ReplyDeleteeither way it will be recorded
ReplyDeletehey where's that funny video of me picking up stuff and getting mad? it's not That funny, but it's sort of funny.
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