A couple of weeks ago our pastor posed the question, "What would you do if you knew you could not fail". Wow...that made me stop and think. There was a point in time that I knew the answer. It would have entailed making a career from music. Lately I don't have enough direction to even be able to answer that. Or maybe my fear of failing won't even let me think about that question. I try not to wallow in self pity at the fact that I am afraid to contemplate the question much less actually spend time finding an answer. Instead I am trying to keep my heart open for Him to provide an answer.

Basically the question was posed to present the idea that if God asks you to do something all you have to do is say "Yes" and you succeed. Quite a novel concept. If you do something God wants you to do you will succeed. That doesn't mean it going to be easy, or that it won't have it's challenges...but you will succeed.

A couple of weeks ago they announced that they would be giving away the entire Easter service offering to families in need. They did just that...not to church members who are "in the fold" but to guests and visitors. They asked the congregation to bring friends and family that didn't have a church home who were in need and gave them each an envelope of cash. They've also paid thousands of dollars in utility bills for church members who are un or under employed.

Today they did it again, only today they did it in a way that each family in the church gets to be personally involved in showing their community that God is recession proof. As each family left to go home, they were given an envelope with $50 and asked to pray about who God wanted them to help. Not a charity to just hand the cash to, but an actual person. A friend, a co-worker, the family of one of my daughter's classmates...or a total stranger. We are so excited about this opportunity to allow my daughter to participate in something that is so much bigger than herself. I'm asking God to show Rowan someone she can help.

What would you do?

As I stated in my last post, this blog started as a "house blog" to cover the construction of our home in Texas but it has now evolved into a blog about our life in Texas.

My biggest problem as of late is trying to figure out if my own personal life was worth blogging about. Sure, I g a ave birth to beautiful baby boy in January and am married to the most amazing man. And I can't forget that I have the coolest 6-year-old daughter on the planet. But is that in itself blog worthy?

Recently a high school friend who follows my status updates on Facebook, sent me a note asking if everything was okay since I had been "awfully reflective lately".

This was my response to her:

Everything is fine...just desparately trying to find some direction. I've been "going through the motions" for way to long. I feel like a spectator in life rather than an actual participant.

So it looks like this blog's new incarnation will be my reflection and search for what exactly I'm supposed to actually be doing with my life. Chime in if you see something I miss or even if you just want to say "hi".

Stay tuned...

I can't believe that it has been so long since I have written an update. Yes of course our life is still charmed...now more than ever since we are expecting a baby brother for the Whohead to arrive on this coming Wednesday. That being said, what started out as a blog about us building a new home is now transforming itself into a blog about a new life.

Stay tuned for updates on our newest arrival...coming soon!

After many months of building, shopping and cleaning I am finally ready to unveil the house as it looks today. Yes there are plenty of spaces that still need to be filled and decorated...but what do you expect when you move from 1900 square feet to almost 4500?! We are still painting and looking for art to fill the massive expanse of wall space but over the holiday weekend I managed to get some family photos hung up so the house if finally starting to feel like someplace we actually "live" instead of just where we fall asleep each night.

I keep thinking I'll find the time to go back and "update" the blog to reflect each step of the final closing on the house. The problem is...I DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH TIME! So the longer I wait to catch up the blog...the more there is to write about, and the more time I need to be able to write. So instead I'm just going to put in the photos of the house right after we closed and moved in and then try to keep it current while we continue to unpack and decorate.