Why it feels creepy to talk about Jesus…

“At some point, the gospel gets aggressive.” I looked up at him. There was that rush, that slight piercing feeling in my chest, that flip-flop in my stomach, that heart-beat quickening just a bit. You know that feeling, when you’re sitting in church and all of a sudden you feel as though the pastor is […]

A dead sprint on a country road chasing after a goat

I was running in a dead sprint down a country road chasing after a baby goat. What am I DOING? You just never know when the sacred will interrupt your mundane. That morning Jeff & I had talked in low voices, quietly exchanging church-planting discouragement while the kids obliviously ate oatmeal and discussed ocean animals. It […]

Frugal Friday: The Simple Diet

This past week I began doing Preschool lessons at home with Dutch….every day. Remember my goal was to do it 2x/week?  That was all I thought I could do. Well, turns out that my friend with whom I’m partnering (doing a little coop with our 3 preschool-aged kids) is doing it every day, so in […]