A few friends have been poking and proding me to get back to blogging. I apologize for the hiatus, and even a new place to find me, but I was using the blog as a personal journal...sort of, and that's not how it should have been. So I walked away from the old, with intention to return, but not until I had purpose.
Ironically, purpose is something I was struggling with, and will probably always deal with in my life, but I more specifically didn't want to be world wide without a reason to be. So I've been praying a lot, looking at the world, seeing all my passions before me, and realized a lot of things, but this weekend, it hit me in the face. Smacked me actually.
Friday night, an amazing man, a father, husband, brother in Christ and family, son, pilot, 39-going on-25, lover of life died tragically. I say tragic because he was all of those things to so many people, our church community has been rocked, to all places of the world. Everyone that crossed paths with Scott knew he was living different. He loved his wife Holly with a passion and smile that every girl hopes and dreams for in a man one day. His life being taken so quickly, with so much to go, so much of his 4 kids lives to live with them still ahead, shook me to my roots.
So here, in this place, I'm dedicating my time to be about bringing it back to Him. There is no time like now. Life could be gone in a second, and what would we have to show for it? Who would be shook in your world. Does everyone know how much you love them? Do they know that Jesus is the only way into eternity? Do you live life like this is just the passage way to the rest of your life? He died so we could live, really live, and live forever with Him!
That's how Scott lived. And that's the passion that he had for kids...a passion we both share. So welcome to a place that hopefully I can be wise in sharing things that are known, challenging, and learned. In a raw, unfiltered, authentic, and out-loud sort of way.
