Category Archives: Personal

Reading and Growing

We’ve been reading Radical by David Platt at the same time as we have been reading The Heavenly Man. These have been powerful books that are really reinforcing the lessons we’ve learned in the past and have started to nudge us back … Continue reading

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A Brick Wall

We haven’t written for a while mainly because we’ve been working on goal #3, which is to be physically able to go where called.  Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us to have the second hip surgery.  … Continue reading

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Hip Surgery

Well, we are back in Vail to get Becca’s left hip fixed. We got her right hip taken care of just over a year ago. It’s been a long few months of trying to get to this point. The surgery … Continue reading

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Money… meh.

The dangerous thing about making goal for your life is that sometimes it gets tested. Two layoffs in 6 months testifies to that. Now that we’ve discussed why building an invincible foundation in our marriage is a goal, we need … Continue reading

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Dear Emotional Rubber-band Ball,

I regret to inform you that your services will no longer be required in our relationship. When Tim first recognized you existed we had to thank you immediately for holding us together. Your ability to keep both of us very … Continue reading

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The Big Five

Last May when Tim’s first layoff was a couple of weeks in, we had a revelation.  We needed to make goals that were so big that it would take God to accomplish them.  The things that we were most uncertain … Continue reading

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The Mountain

Something that we have been thinking about ever since May of 2008 is the idea of global missions. That May, Rebecca and I went on a backpacking trip in the Rocky Mountains. It was to be a three-day loop in … Continue reading

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