Many of you have been asking us how we are doing. I have tried to answer that question with an analogy that Donald Miller uses in his newest book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (and most of the time I give him credit, unless someone thinks it’s a really brilliant analogy, then I...
Category Archives: j's perspective
Happy Birthday Shelby!
Our little Shelbs turned 2 today!
If you would hang out w/Shelby on her 2nd birthday, you would learn that she:
drinks agua, “pop”, “leche de vaca” (milk from a cow), and hot tea
pretends to be a baby lion
sings all of “twinkle twinkle little star” (or rather “tinkle tinkle little star”) by herself
doesn’t like brown crocodiles, but...
advent: surprise! {dec 20 – 25}
Have you ever received one of those gifts that was so incredible and unexpected, that you talked about it for years to come? When I was in college, my parents, siblings and I spent a year in Bolivia, South America. Bolivia was a very poor country, and there were no familiar United States restaurants or...
advent: silence {dec 13 – dec 19}
My dad is a high school vocal and instrumental music teacher. He always taught us that when singing or playing music, we should pay close attention to the “rests” (the silent pauses in-between the notes) because they are just as important as the notes themselves. If there were no rests, all the notes would end...
advent: celebration! {dec 6 – dec 12}
We know this girl, Kristen, from Denver, who recently celebrated her 21st birthday. Her family threw her a huge surprise party. They secretly planned for months and months. They reserved a private room at a trendy sushi restaurant, decorated it, and invited 50 guests. They spent thousands of dollars to make this a special event....
advent: intro
It seems like, every December, I find myself wishing I was more impacted by the Christmas story. Every year I swear that THIS Christmas is going to be more meaningful, more life-changing. But then I get lost in the craziness of it, and soon it’s gone. With the exception of some amazing Christmas gatherings at...