hello, sweet summer.

so our last day of work came and went and now we are both officially unemployed.

and instead of indulging in my tendency to freak out about something like that, we celebrated our first sunday night without the looming thought of an early morning by blowing up an air mattress in our living room that is scattered with boxes and void of all furniture (thanks to some great friends who helped saturday!), and watched fletch. how is chevy chase so funny?

i heard something a couple weeks ago that has really stuck with me. "if we go about in the patterns of life, put everything on coast and just live day to day, we will all but diminish the need to trust in our lives." we will choose comfort and a plan we can explain to ourselves and our peers every time.

and i just really feel the truth of that by how much i try to paint this illusion of control in my own life, to have a plan, pretending that i have it all together. but here's the thing: if we were to make a list of things in this life we can't control, i don't know if we would ever get to the end of it. and that idea itself is enough to stress a type-a person like myself out. but...(and this is a good but)...we weren't designed to be in control, that's already taken care of. we are being invited by the God of the universe to follow him into his bigger story, an adventure, a life of risk and danger and struggles and questions. a life that we can't comprehend or explain, but with the faith that God will see us through to the other side. and in the struggle, if we hang on to him tight enough, we become. become the kind of people we were always meant to become - of faith, passion, and joy.

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P.S. we have officially been accepted to all nation's "church planting experience" starting this fall in kansas city!

P.P.S. our first trip of the summer starts this tuesday when we head to kc and then to bull shoals lake with my amazing fam that hasn't been together in far too long (i.e. our wedding in december, yikes). we will be back with pictures next week :)