Core Truths

“The mountains are calling and I must go.” We first saw this phrase four years ago when we visited the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. The phrase didn’t really strike a chord with us personally until two years ago when we read it again, this time when we were visiting the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. It was there, and along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, that we finally started to feel and understand the phrase. Our lives have taken quite a drastic turn since then, but we realize it has been an ongoing small, gentle tug in this direction. We have also come to understand that the voice we have heard isn’t the mountains calling us. We are finally listening and can hear it is God calling our names and we know we must follow! We know that where we are going is the mountains, but we know that is not why we are going. We know that we are being called to live a life differently than what we have been living. We know we are being called to do things differently than what we have bee...

  Well, we have more big news to share about our Unbinded Life! Today, the house we have called home for the past four and a half years officially hit the market. In our quest to simplify our life, we knew there were certain things that were just going to have to go. We have decluttered clothes, closets, and cabinets. We have purged from top to bottom. We have sold a car. We have paid off over $25,000 in debt. We have eliminated things from our day-to-day life that have taken up our time and our money. We have searched our hearts to answer the question about what is really necessary. Turns out there are many things, like this house and the pool we just put in last year, that just didn’t make the cut. Turns out, it was more than we need. Turns out, it wasn’t one of the things we truly desire in life. When we first started sharing our journey eight months ago, we said we didn’t know where all of this was going to lead us, but we were eager to find out. And that is true…we didn’t kn...

  We have some big news! Core Truths is now Unbinded Life! We are very excited to announce this change and are even more excited to share how we came to this point. For the past eight months, this little blog has changed from only Opal sharing to a place where we could both share together. Our audience has grown and so has our vision for this blog. We have been on a journey to simplify our life in every possible way. We have been sharing as much of this as we could along the way. What started out as “just imagine if we ….”is turning into more and more of a reality every day. We are looking forward to continuing down this path we have embarked upon and sharing much more with you as we move forward! Unbinded Life has come to us as a way to express what we are thinking, what we are feeling and what we are now doing…freeing ourselves from the things that keep us held down. We have searched our hearts to find what it is that has been holding us back from living the life we truly want to...