my floor is dirty.
generally, we are a no shoes household. it’s helped our house stay clean, for the most part. the antique hardwood floors that came with our house seem to quickly gather dust and so we try. we try to keep it tidy.
last week, we had some friends over and our living room was filled with different conversations. i made decaf coffee. there was a charcuterie board on the coffee table in the middle of our living room. our baby was sound asleep. the sunset lamp was perfectly in place slightly filling the room with colored light that made you feel like you were in a glow. a friend who is currently enrolled in school was finishing homework on our dinner table. we laughed often. life was happening before me and yet, our house went from being neatly organized to now showing proof of..life. proof of life sometimes interrupts my control.
and i need that often.
my baby crying in the middle of the night is a sharp wake up to being very tired but more importantly, a bright reminder that someone is alive in my home.
people help me because i need to remember that a rich life means a life sometimes interrupted.
God interrupts us and i hope He continues.
His coming was an interruption. His return will be an interruption. i pray that right now, He continues to interrupt me.
Mess my world up, God.
I can always clean a dirty floor. I just don’t want to miss the footsteps that blessed my home.
proverbs 14:4 - An empty stable stays clean—but there is no income from an empty stable.
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someone very wise told me that spiritual maturity means that we grow into deeper dependence on God as we continue to walk with Him. i can’t say i’m fully there yet - not because i don’t want to be but because i still tend to lean on myself for many things. i crave to abide in God and yet i can sometimes try to grow myself. if what the bible says is true (which of course it is), apart from Him, i cannot do anything.
i don’t know better than God. my ways are not His ways.
i can be incredibly impatient, but He takes His time.
i want to understand everything, but He sometimes only tells me what i need to hear. if He is a vinedresser (which He is), then i’d say im still learning to trust His steady hands. they prune and they purify and it’s for my good.
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@elyssasm , you are a wonder to me. better than i could’ve ever asked for. thank you for your art. my beautiful wife. you’re in the other room soothing our baby daughter on the day of your release and that says everything about you. it’s cool we get to release music, but you really want to be in the moment with everyone more. most importantly, with God Himself.
congratulations on your new music. fly high babe, i’ll be right next to you. ☁️
dear elyssa, happy birthday. you help me be formed more into the image of Christ. the way you follow Him, love Him, talk about Him, and obey Him is making our home a place where our flora will know Him. proverbs is right when it says that he who finds a wife finds a GOOD THING. you are the treasure i get to discover day by day and i am the luckiest man on the planet.
you are intelligent, wise, hot, funny, and truly the best mom to flora. you are perfect.
you are the rain my heart needs often and my best friend. you refresh me. you encourage me. you know me. i love you!!
you deserve to be celebrated!!!! 💕🎊🎂
happy two years of being married to the most beautiful @elyssasm . my best friend. my day 1. my laughing partner.
you are the best mom to flora. i never get bored with you. i’m glad you enjoy me being weird. i like that you ask me questions when we watch shows together. the color of your eyes melts me. my bebe. your patience settles those around you. i’m the luckiest man in the whole world. this is the best year for our lives yet. we will keep growing. we will keep building. we will keep being pruned. Most of all, we will keep following God together. i love you my bebe. xo
