Archive for the 'a thing called life' Category

On Finding a Church Home

Six weeks, six Sunday mornings we walked into the large, beautiful church building hoping that someone other than just the greeter would smile, say hello or just make us feel welcome in some small way.
I had researched the churches in the area on the web. We had first narrowed down the ones we would visit [...]

Yet even this is not truly my home

We’ve moved into our own home.
After hoping, praying, and waiting for eleven years, we own a home again.
Those are sweet words to say and for those who’ve known us through the waiting process, I hope they are sweet words to hear too.
Eleven years ago this past summer we lost a beautiful home in Temecula, California. [...]

House Hunting

Most of my house hunting over the last eleven years has basically taken place on the couch while browsing realtor.com. I’ve dreamed of the day the Lord would be so gracious as to give us our own home again. And while most of it has been just dreaming in those years we’ve also come extremely [...]

We Survived the Move

I had high hopes that when I wrote my first post with information about our move from Wisconsin to Texas it would be filled adjectives that described pure joy and excitement over our new home. Instead you may notice a few synonyms to the word “confused.”
I should probably start with the things that don’t befuddle [...]