Welcome

My blog name reflects our family journey, as well as the increasing awe I feel simply being in nature. As a family we have had our ups and downs, sometimes it seemed more downs than ups as we have grown from young passionate Christians to older and hopefully wiser - tempered ones.

Along the way we have traveled home to home, and in several of the last houses the garden both when we arrived and when we left has been a symbol of our time there. There have been weedy, overgrown gardens - and uncared for churches, barren gardens and barren places in our lives, peaceful gardens and times of refreshing.

At the beginning of 2006 God placed us in a rose garden. A small suburban section with almost no lawn and over 50 rose bushes. We pulled out a few for the children to have a lawn to play on - but most are preparing a blaze of color for November. The garden is a gift and reminder from God of his faithfulness - because without him we would never have dreamed this gift possible. The house comes with the option of putting down roots and being fruitful, each member of our family is ready to embrace putting down roots. It has been a long journey and we are glad to be home.

I still need to dot the lavender plants through the garden. It has taken a while to have the courage to make it mine, to say which plants belong there and which should go, and so I'm only slowly making it mine.