LIFE

Where to begin? When you have a couple of weeks away from blogging, it feels a little overwhelming when you return to it to know where to start. Mine and Randy's lives have taken a major turn in January, and there's been so many things going on, that I've just not had the time to even sit down and write about any of it. Even though my to-do list is a mile long, I'm taking a few minutes to sit down here and try to start getting caught up. Besides the major life transitions, there's some things related to the boys I want to share too. So, guess I'll be doing a lot of posts (hopefully) to get caught up to present day life!

The major transition that God blew us away with in January is that we are starting a brand new ministry of our own called LIFE Ministries. We have been serving with dear friends over the last 2 1/2 years with a ministry called Encounter, but God decided it was time to shake us up a bit, and push us out of our comfortable boat and into the water on our own. We are super excited as we begin to plan and dream and follow God in this journey. We will be doing very similar ministry to what we have been doing with marriages, men, and women, but this also will open up new opportunities for us that we haven't even begun to dream about. We will taking the month of February to transition and prepare, and we will launch LIFE on March 1st. To say the we have a few things to do would be a major understatement. But even the parts of this that seem overwhelming are things we are enjoying because we feel such peace as we are moving forward. As a friend said to us a few days ago, "God must be all over this, because this is just crazy!" We agree! It is pretty nuts, but God has been all over it from the beginning, so we're stepping out in faith and obedience, and letting Him show us what's next. We could not do this without the prayers and support of our friends and families and we are so grateful to not be doing this all alone. We can't wait to see what God wants to do with this. I'll update as we take the next steps.

I hope to get back on here in the next day or so to share new pictures of Asher at 4 months - which he turns today, and some video of Caleb square dancing at school - so sweet! And I'll throw in some of Brennan just being himself, which is funny enough!

One more thing... if you read this blog, click the "follow" button over there on the right. I'd love to know who is following our life and ministry. Thanks!

Jesus is LIFE!