Our New Bi-coastal Lifestyle

After some motivating words from different people and all the new things I seem to want to say, I have decided again to start up the blog...again.

Much has changed between the last time I wrote, which was only about 6 months ago. We are now living in Los Angeles, which has been a terrifying and wonderful change. The majority of my new posts are probably going to involve my reflections on this place and what it's like to start from scratch. Why did we decide to move across the country? It seemed exciting. It was by the beach. The weather is undeniably better than Pittsburgh. It is a large and diverse city. We can bike year around and go to farmer's markets. All these things are great, but none of them are worth leaving behind our community, our family. It is a wonderful thing to be surrounded by people who don't just love you, but know you. Something we have missed greatly in the last month that we have been here. The reason we left was because we couldn't deny that something was pushing us here. The doors kept being opened for us to come to this place. I don't know what wonderful things God has here for us, but I know that we aren't big/strong/important enough to mess up his plan. He is larger than our mistakes. And it is with that hope that we enter a new stage of our life. How ever brief it may be that we are here, we are ready for what it holds for us.

A great way to start a new year, with possibilities.



Take a deep breath of life
and consider how it should be lived....

Call nothing your own except your soul.
Love not what you are, but only what you may become.

Do not pursue pleasure
for you may have the misfortune to overtake it.

Look always forward:
in last year's nest, there are no birds this year.

From Man of La Mancha, By Dale Wasserman