Consumed. There is no middle ground.

Back in June I had some things churning in me. I was seriously struggling with something in my life and God ministered to me in that. I had these thoughts about this process that I'm seeing repeated in my life, so I decided to talk out my thoughts in front of my cell phone in a video (maybe a result of Keith being away).

I cut out about 5 minutes from the beginning of the video of me explaining how I tend to get completely consumed by problems - over and over in my life. And God sets me free, but then I end up getting consumed by something else. So, the problem isn't the things that consume me; the problem is me and my willingness to be consumed (as the pattern shows). But God is faithful to heal me and set me free and pull me up out of the pit. And I go on from there to form my main idea:

A beautiful response.

Beautiful, graceful, honest response by Bill Hybels to Howard Schults, CEO of Starbucks, after Howard canceled his speaking engagement at Willow Creek. This seems so much more Christian than engaging in a cultural war.

Housewarming/Birthday Party: Everyone's invited!

Hello friends!

We moved to Arkansas this summer! We're renting a house on the campus of Ecclesia College, where we're both working. Keith is the new soccer coach at Ecclesia & Lindsay is working in Financial Aid.

We wanted to open up our home to old friends & new friends to see our new place & celebrate Keith's birthday (8/26). We understand that most of you from back in Illinois won't be able to make it, but we still wanted to extend the invitation. :)

PRESENCE as PRESENTS: no gifts please!

Shalom!

Lindsay & Keith