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Seattle Spring Break Day 1&2
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Seattle Spring Break Day 1&2

Horraaahhhh for Spring Break!!! We made it to Seattle! We were up until 1 am before a 5:30 am departure time the night before we left, and although Matt and I were exhausted we couldn’t have asked for a better travel day. ALL of the kids did amazingly well on the plane.  Especially Crew! He…

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Christmas 2015

This past August we took our family of 7 on a two week road trip half way across the country in a borrowed RV to visit friends and family. It was a BIG deal and we had NO intention at all of going back for Christmas…but plans changed at the very last minute and we…

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What if the runway was never meant to be the desti What if the runway was never meant to be the destination?⁠
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What if the delay isn’t in God’s voice,⁠
but in our willingness—or unwillingness—to move?⁠
⁠
We love the idea of clarity.⁠
We cling to timing, signs, confirmations,⁠
fleeces on the ground.⁠
⁠
But sometimes—⁠
we already know what God is asking.⁠
We’re just hoping He changes His mind.⁠
⁠
Not later.⁠
Not when it’s easier.⁠
Not when we feel more ready.⁠
⁠
But now.⁠
⁠
He’s asking us to trust.⁠
To remain.⁠
To actually follow—not just flirt with the idea of obedience.⁠
⁠
Because there’s a subtle kind of disobedience⁠
that masquerades as preparation.⁠
⁠
We read books.⁠
We journal thoughts.⁠
We talk circles around the step we won’t take.⁠
⁠
But let’s call it what it is:⁠
Preparing to obey isn’t the same as obeying.⁠
⁠
We don’t get credit for orbiting the thing.⁠
Obedience is not proximity.⁠
It’s movement.⁠
⁠
Not performance.⁠
Not perfection.⁠
But movement—with Him.⁠
⁠
So maybe today it looks like:⁠
That call you’ve delayed.⁠
That risk you’ve reasoned away.⁠
That step you keep saying you’ll take “when things calm down.”⁠
⁠
But here’s the good news:⁠
God is not watching with arms crossed.⁠
He’s not measuring your speed—⁠
He’s offering His presence.⁠
⁠
So start small.⁠
Start wobbly.⁠
Start afraid, if you have to.⁠
⁠
Just start with Him.⁠
⁠
Because the aim isn’t productivity.⁠
It’s intimacy.⁠
And we often meet Him most clearly⁠
in the doing.⁠
⁠
So—⁠
What is He asking you to do?⁠
⁠
Not someday.⁠
Not in theory.⁠
But now.⁠
⁠
Let’s stop circling.⁠
Let’s trust.⁠
Let’s begin.
Yesterday was my birthday—and each year passing Yesterday was my birthday—and each year passing has me more and more reflective of life as a whole. 

If you’d have asked me years ago what my life would be like by now, I’d have guessed a completely different reality. 

But that thought doesn’t make me sad anymore, it makes me so excited. Because life isn’t what we see here and now. It’s not about chasing comfort or finding satisfaction in what is created. 

Lasting transformation comes only by fire.⁠
Silver doesn’t become pure by being admired on the shelf.⁠
It must be tested.⁠
Tried.⁠
Held to the flame.⁠
⁠
“For You, O God, have tested us;⁠
You have tried us as silver is tried.” — Psalm 66:10⁠
⁠
God doesn’t refine us from a distance or outsource the process.⁠
He sits with us in it.⁠
⁠
“He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver…” — Malachi 3:3⁠
⁠
That phrase stirs something deep. Because we all know what the heat feels like—⁠
the unexpected loss,⁠
the horrible diagnosis,⁠
the betrayal,⁠
the wilderness seasons when our prayers echo back in silence.⁠
⁠
But Scripture reminds us:⁠
the heat is not proof He has left.⁠
It is proof He is at work.⁠
⁠
Refining is personal.⁠
It’s holy.⁠
And it’s never rushed.⁠
⁠
Because the Refiner is waiting for something specific:⁠
His reflection.⁠
⁠
When our anger gives way to grace.⁠
When our self-sufficiency yields to surrender.⁠
When our bitterness softens into mercy.⁠
When our strength becomes gentleness,⁠
and our fear bows to trust.⁠
⁠
This is what He’s after.⁠
Not ease.⁠
Not perfection.⁠
But Christ formed in us.⁠
⁠
“In this you rejoice, though now for a little while… you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith… may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” — 1 Peter 1:6–7⁠
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So if you feel like the fire in your life has been hot too—⁠
take heart.⁠
You are not being destroyed.⁠
You are being refined.⁠
⁠
You are being made radiant⁠
with the beauty of someone⁠
who bears the very image of Jesus.⁠
⁠
And one day soon,⁠
when the heat has lifted⁠
and the refining is done,⁠
you will shine with a brilliance⁠
that only the fire could have brought.

And that, my friends, is a life worth celebrating!
The first time I thought of the phrase “pass out The first time I thought of the phrase “pass out flowers,”
I was in the middle of a prayer time—
wrestling with what it meant to forgive people who had hurt me deeply.

I didn’t feel loving. I didn’t feel free.
I felt angry. Bitter. Wounded.

In that stillness, the Lord met me.
And He gently replaced the weight of resentment with three unexpected words:
pass out flowers.

It felt too simple at first.
But within moments, I immediately realized what it meant.

Forgiveness.
Compassion.
Kindness.
Love.

And the clear, Spirit-led invitation to scatter them freely wherever I go. Like confetti. Like candy. And to keep passing them out no matter the outcome.

Passing out flowers isn’t just a gift to others.
It’s a gift to us.

Every time we choose love over pride,
kindness over retaliation,
compassion over offense—
something shifts in us.

Galatians 5 calls it fruit.

Not the kind we perform or force,
but the kind that grows as we walk with the Spirit:

Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Self-control.

Passing out flowers is what it looks like when the Spirit has done holy work in the soil of our hearts.

It’s choosing not to take offense—
even when offense is offered to us.

It’s choosing grace,
not because people earned it,
but because Christ gave it freely.

It’s loving others more than we love being right.
More than we love being understood.
More than we love protecting our own name.

Yes, it costs us.
But strangely—beautifully—
it also frees us.

Because this kind of love doesn’t just heal the people around us.
It heals us, too.

It doesn’t just bring beauty to those around us. It creates beauty in us too.

It softens what bitterness hardened.
It lightens what anger weighed down.
It reminds us that we don’t just follow Jesus with our beliefs—
we follow Him with how we love.

So pass out flowers. And don’t ever stop.

Even if they’re rejected.
Even if no one says thank you.
Even if you never see what grows.

Because this kind of love always leaves a fragrance.

And without a sermon or a spotlight, the Spirit will do what He always does—point hearts back to Jesus.
When someone you love is hurting—really hurting—it’s hard to know what to say.⁠
⁠
You want to show up, but you don’t want to say the wrong thing. 

So sometimes, out of fear or discomfort, we say too much. 

Other times, we stay quiet, unsure if we’ll make it worse.⁠
⁠
But here’s the truth: no one needs you to have all the right words. They just need to know they’re not alone.⁠
⁠
Say: • “I’m here.” • “I hate this for you.” • “I made extra soup and I’m bringing it over—hope that’s okay.” • “I love you.” • “I don’t know what to say, but I’m staying.” • “I’m going to walk this with you.”⁠
⁠
Don’t say: • “Everything happens for a reason.” • “At least it’s not worse.” • “You’ve got this” (sometimes they really don’t feel like they do). • “God won’t give you more than you can handle.” (Not only untrue—and is not at all Biblical—but it can also feel crushing.)⁠
⁠
Pain doesn’t need to be explained away. Grief doesn’t need to be cleaned up. Presence isn’t small. It’s sacred.⁠
⁠
Sometimes the most healing thing we can offer is our silence and our nearness.⁠
Not answers, not solutions. Just our unhurried, undistracted presence.⁠
⁠
Because in the end, that’s how God comes close to us too—Immanuel. God with us.⁠
And sometimes the most Christlike thing we can do… is be with.⁠
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