'tis the season...for re-vival

sorry for the long season o' no posts. i've really missed blogging...lack of time has not allowed me to this summer. i have enjoyed the quickness of facebook (thanks andrea, for getting me into it!)...blogger just seems to take a lot of time at one sitting that i just can't seem to find anymore. fuzzybison work has been booming and keeping me extremely busy. so most often, when i sit down at the mac, it's to work...and i must maximize that time as scout is sleeping. because when she's not sleeping, fuzzy is not working. just not possible.

next week, we move back to the same rental house that we lived at from fall of '03 to late summer of '05 before moving to st louis...so we are really looking forward to that! we loved living there...great house, affordable rent, great location, close to the gym, church, and family and friends! one challenge we have before us is fitting back into the house that we outgrew while living there...since now we have an additional member. with this challenge, we're adopting a lifestyle that has always been enticing to us, yet seemingly unattractive in our world. simplicity. simple stuff and not a lot of it....(minus our macs and hiking/camping gear. bwhaha!) stuff that perhaps has been used for years, but needs new life. re-usable, re-newed, re-lifed, re-vived. we've been reading ReadyMade magazine for several years and we're ready to really adopt it's ideas and practical ways of living. it's somewhat of a spiritual calling. i sometimes feel all of our stuff and paying for stuff/keeping up with the Joneses gets in the way of God's calling on our lives. i look at how Jesus lived when he walked this earth and i wonder if he would get caught up in all of the "stuff" that i delve myself into on a daily basis. i honestly don't believe he would. i don't even think he would live in taylors at the tiny rental house. he didn't even have a house during his years of ministry on this earth. he had shoes and the clothes on his back. he had friends. he had a calling. he needed nothing else because he was here to minister. so with that, i feel that maybe all of our "stuff" gets in the way of our ministering...maybe in a way, gets in the way of our real reason for being here and doing what we're called to do. i realize he lived in a different time than i do...so it just makes me wonder how he would live in our day and time. i don't know exactly how that would be, but i would like to try and attempt to model that in my life. i want scout to grow up and realize that re-use is a good thing...not just an okay thing. that the newest thing, isn't always the best thing. that she is blessed because of who she is and not because of what she has. i am finally coming to realize that for myself after 30 years. mom and dad tried to instill this in us as children, but it's funny how stubborn kids can be and how influenced they can be by the world...kids meaning carla the child and carla the adult. :)

"Small [house] equals less material possessions and lower rent, which equals, most important, less time spent working on things I don't care about." -Joseph Costa