A New Beginning

I just have a few minutes this morning to fire off a quick inaugural blog. So why The Mustard Seed? This parable of Jesus has become somewhat of a paradigm for our life. We have spent the last four years of our lives in relative obscurity - working, having babies, making friends, seeing God's kingdom breaking out in unexpected ways. I say "relative" obscurity because our life previously was very public. Our story will give you a little indication of that reality. But now, Amber and I routinely look at each other and say, "I love our life." Not because we have it all together or everything we do is "successful", but because we are free to live as God intended.

So this blog will be mostly about the small, incremental actions of a family (and a community) that has been captured by the vision of the Mustard Seed...

"He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches."