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Our Beautiful Mess bio picture

welcome.

hey! glad you are here!

this is where i document glimpses of our family's ordinary, crazy life. we believe that in the midst of the mundane and the seemingly out-of-control times, god is here. and beauty is here. and this beauty can draw our gaze toward god and transform dreariness into dancing (or at least into a brief, kind-of relieved, exhale)! 

no matter who you are or what your story is, i invite you to come along for the ride. if you don't "have it all together" you will probably fit in well here. so grab some coffee, forget that you have a to-do list a mile long, and get comfy.

welcome to our beautiful mess!

 

Tag Archives: process

wwmdd? update: the bad guys* tripped and fell

we are not yet speeding off into the sunset, wind blowing through our hair, radio blasting, as the credits start to roll on this drama/action/adventure/romantic comedy that is this season of our life, but our situation has taken an encouraging turn, and we have some breathing room for a little while. we talked with our...

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Still Paddling

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...

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35 – the new 25 (or at least the new 33)

Yep, I turned 35 this week (Monday). Still just a kid. Lindsey gave me a great present in the morning by letting me sleep in as long as I wanted, while she took care of Shelby. While I was in dreamland, they decorated one of the big walls in our apt., so it would be...

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