Hello there. 
I am so happy that you have stumbled upon my home on the internet!
What you see here is the beginning of my stepping out in faith in my internet life.
I used to have two separate blogs – one where I talked about becoming a runner, and then working my way back to being a runner after injury, illness and long winter weather, and another where I talked about what the Lord was teaching me.
Eventually I realized that I was censoring myself.
I was more worried about keeping followers, and potentially offending people, that I rarely spoke about the Lord, other than the occasional mention of church, and saved any thing like that solely for my faith blog.
I am not sure when I realized that by trying to squeeze myself into a box I was running out of things to say… and that the things that I did say felt shallow and weak. But I began to realize that I was not owning anything. I gained back all of the weight that I lost. I lost all of the fitness that I had gained over the summer after I had Jonathan. It was time to start being honest about it.
My word:
Authentic.
It began to start haunting me.
I began being authentic about things on the fitness blog. I talked about raising my sons for the glory of the Lord. I talked about Running the Race, like in Hebrews 12.
But now that I was being the real me in two different places, I didn’t know what to put where.
So I just started over.
I merged the two of them together, found a blog address that used my word, and I was good to go.
The best thing, is that I was able to import the posts from both places, so I have a record of the things that the Lord was teaching me, and I have a record of how He began to change my heart, and prepare me for being authentic, and honest, and open.
So.
My husband, Randy, and I have been married since July of 2002.
We have two adorable (I am biased, but they really ARE adorable) sons — Stephen and Jonathan.
Stephen was born in 2006, and Jonathan in 2010.
Stephen is sensitive, funny, and creative. Jonathan is adventurous and playful, but a little bit more reserved, but has absolutely no fear.
Stephen accepted the Lord in the fall of 2010.
I am the band director for a small town ocean town in Maine. I started teaching in the fall of 2001, and I love my job. I always have looked at my place here in this town and these schools as my ministry.
But….
Now the Lord is calling us to plant a church here in this town, and we are in the waiting process.
It is exciting — thrilling, but also painful, and frightening! We are trusting completely in Him, and have truly learned how He speaks to us, and seen the beautiful ways that He confirms what He is going to do to both of us. I love it!
Well….
There you have it.
It’s probably way more than you bargained for, but, if you clicked on it, I am hoping that you really wanted to know.
If you have a blog, and similar themes, I would love to visit, and follow your journey, as well! Please leave a comment, and maybe we can be friends. (But… real friends… not just facebook friends.)
