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The Value of Time

We've shared with you our quest to live a simple life, our thoughts on this notion of "busyness," and our desire to create a new normal for ourselves and our family. In this episode and in our quest to live a simple life, we talk about the value of time and question the things we allow to take up our time--such as the number of our things, the size of our homes, and the amount of our debt. We hope you'll join us on this journey! 

I Want To Say Yes

Back in February, when Opal and I saw Free Burma Rangers Movie in theaters, this quote really stood out to me. It gripped me as if the silver screen was speaking to just me. I’ve reflected on it so much since then and what it means to me in my life. I couldn’t wait until the movie was released for digital purchase to be able to hear his exact words again. “You might as well go for it because what are you going to hold onto? You’re going to lose your life one day anyway. So, saying yes is [saying], God, all the good things you have for us, I want them. And anything useful to do that I can do, I would like to do it. So, I’ll say yes. And I want to say no to the swamp of sin on one side that gets me bogged down. And no to the swamp of good things to do—Christian things to do—that God didn’t ask me to do that will also bog me down. And I want to say yes to that line that God has to which I believe has no caution lights. It’s green. Go man, as fast as you want to go! How much faith do ...

Normal Wasn't Working

In this video message and our quest to live a simple life, we question how do we go back to things being normal when "normal" wasn't working for us. We hope you'll join us on this journey!

Tired of the "Busyness"

We were busy, too busy, before the world told us to stop. For months, no for years, my husband has been telling me we were doing too much. He has been telling me we were too busy. He has been telling me we were not intended to live this way. He has been telling me, the “busyness” has to stop.  But we kept going. Before the world told us to stop, we would sync calendars, we would coordinate drop-offs and pick-ups, we would tag team tuck-ins. We would meet at games and we would trade off kids. We would work in the car and we would eat in the car. And “watching” our kids at their events became a balancing act of returning one more email and not missing their next best shot.  And every early tired morning-after-morning my husband would say, we are too busy. And every rushed text during lunch to make sure we had all of our bases covered for that afternoon my husband would say, we are too busy. And every night when we dragged in, still needing to eat dinner, still n...

Discovering the Core Truth

This is our attempt at stripping away the layers to find our Core Truth--how do we live a simple life and remove all the "busy-ness" that has been weighing us down. We hope you'll join us on this journey!