Spice of Life

Matthew 22:34-40 "But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.  And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.  "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"  And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the great and first commandment.  And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." In the last couple years I have really gotten into reading stuff by Jen Hatmaker and she sums it up like this, "Love God love people, then end."  It's so basic, so simple...and yet not.  Jesus took on flesh, lived among us and then died for us so that we could be free from sin.  He embodied love, he lived out love and then he died so we might live.  Not only died though but conquered death by coming back to life.  Tha...

As you probably know we recently made a very big move.  On June 29th we woke up in a mostly empty house in Seattle and started packing up the van for a cross country trip.  We discovered that not everything fit in the van...surprise, surprise.  My mom and I packed up about 4 boxes of clothes and various things we wouldn't need for the trip out and took them to UPS.  We frantically loaded the van with suitcases, snacks, bags, baby paraphernalia, three adults, three kids and a large dog.  How did we all fit?  Just barely.  We took one last drive to Biojunction Sports Therapy and said some tearful goodbyes and then met my cousin Alyssa at Luna Park Cafe for breakfast...but sadly our last minute UPS run made us too late to sit with her and we could only hug, pray and cry.  That day we drove out of Seattle with no where to live and no jobs for any of us.  It was scary as hell, exciting and sad.  As we drive to Ellensburg listening to our "Mic...