day by day

Day One: the cute 'lil peanut we got to take home with us

Day Two: so many visitors!!!

Day Three: meeting up with friends @ the beach!

Day 7: camp for the first time, and Jinny's there, of course

Day 8: Autumn knit this set for her - amazing gift, so much love!

Day 10: crashed out at home after a busy weekend making the rounds up island

for the record

... of course I held her tight and kissed her sweet face over and over

"The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and me and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we find this truth beautiful, the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather rely on His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love." - Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

numbered days fly by indeed

for a long time now I have been overwhelmed and immobilized by the enormous back-log of posts that have accumulated in my mind. this is silliness, to be impeded from going forward by what has not been done in the past. story of my life - oi. I just turned 30, and yes, I can believe it. I feel 30. and it feels pretty great, actually! I am blessed in so many, many ways with things that I could never deserve - it's all so readily attributable to God's grace and His love makes my heart sing with gratitude. on a good day, of course. I have my ups and downs, but more and more, I'm starting to be able to put aside the sense of shame and guilt and inadequacy that weighs me down and realize that I'M FREE. Completely and wonderfully free because of what Christ has done. If I could only lay it down permanently I'd be overjoyed.

wow, I didn't intend to go off on that tangent. I was only going to declare that I will begin to post regularly. with fortitude and confidence and most of all, (again I say) regularity! I can't bring myself to start at the present, and not do a bit of catch-up. there are just too many great things that have happened in the year+ that I do not want to neglect entirely by not writing any commentary for them. but here's to being 30, to being strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus and to pursuing precious wisdom... and to blogging it all!