I named our blog "More Than Miniblinds" (formerly known as "Joy, Freedom, Life, Hope, Love") after a conversation Tyson and I were having one evening during our first year of marriage as we were in the throws of remodeling the 60 year old house we had just purchased (it was a foreclosure and we got it for a steal, but that's another story...). We labored night and day for the first month just getting it move-in ready. We would get off work, change clothes, and go paint or clean until midnight some nights. By the time we moved in, I was exhausted and burned out. We quickly realized the projects were endless. We had both had the desire to do this in the beginning. I'd always had romantic thoughts about buying an old house and fixing it up. The charm, the character, the quaintness. Right?? Somehow my romantic little vision didn't include the sweat, the money, the unexpected issues, the... Oh well, would we ever do anything worth while if we always let the little bumps in the road keep us from going for it?? The house had 13 windows and we steadily bought new wooden blinds and hung them one by one. As we were siting in our living room talking one evening in the height of the house projects (and in the height of my exhaustion), I looked over at one of our windows sporting it's shiny new set of blinds and said, "Life is so much more than miniblinds!" This was my way of saying life is so much more than fixing up a house, buying a new car, working for that next thing, going to work, coming home..., and everything that is so temporal and passing...(hmmm.. sounds like Ecclesiastes doesn't it?) Deep down I know this, but I don't always live like it. In the midst of my rambling, Tyson suggested I name my blog "More than Miniblinds." So there you have it. Kind of cheesy, but reminds me of how I really desire to live my life - with an eternal perspective keeping my eyes on the things that really matter. Desiring to live life to the fullest without getting side-tracked with the "miniblind projects" of life. These things can be good and fun and necessary at times, but I don't want them to define me. One of my favorite scriptures is found in the Old Testament in Isaiah 55:1 and it reads...
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.
That's what I'm talking about!! More than I can come up with myself, God's got something for all of us that's so soul satisfying if we'll just "come." We're invited. More than Miniblinds - Life is more.
Love you guys!
