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If you wander down Guthrie’s historic “church row,” past the brick buildings that look like the set of a Hallmark movie, you’ll eventually find me — probably hunched over a notebook, trying to wrangle my thoughts into something resembling coherence. I’m the kind of person who can’t form an opinion without first creating at least one diagram, two mind‑maps, and a small pile of abandoned metaphors.

When my family moved here from the big city, we launched into the noble and slightly chaotic quest of finding a new church home. We’re on church row! We thought it would be easy, but God gave us a prolonged season of waiting. In that season, for the first time in years, I wasn’t teaching a class of squishy, delightful Sunday‑schoolers, which meant I suddenly had both free time and a brain full of unprocessed thoughts. A dangerous combination.

So I started writing. At first it was just for me — little studies, scribbled reflections, spiritual breadcrumbs to follow while we visited churches and tried to name what we were actually longing for. But the stack grew. And grew. Apparently, this is what happens when you take away my classroom and give me a quiet town with excellent coffee.

Eventually, after many months of visiting congregations, meeting a wide variety of brothers and sisters in Christ, and singing Holy Forever fifty-thousand times, we found the community where we will put down roots. The process changed me in ways I didn’t expect. It clarified what I value, what I hope to pass on, and who I sense the Lord shaping me to become in this next chapter.

This blog is where I gather all of that — the studies, the stories, the questions, the humor, the tradition, the slow becoming. It’s my little corner of the internet where I think out loud and stockpile materials for anyone else who might be interested.

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