THE TINIEST ANNOUNCEMENT

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Yep.  We’re going TINY!

Why????  Why you ask?  Why walk away from 2400 beautiful sq ft to shove all this crazy into 700 sq ft?

While it is a much longer story that God has been weaving, the short of it is this:

Our kids.

Both of our littles come from beginnings that were lacking, tragic, heavy and broken, but those same broken beginnings shaped something in them that most of us, living in America with excess out of our ears, will never fully have:  freedom from stuff.

Our kiddos are content.  People are their currency.  They don’t demand the newest, best, and the biggest…they demand quality time, attention and to be near the people they love.

As Mama and Papa to these two freed-up little ones we want to steward that beautiful treasure they have to the best of our ability.  We want to prop up the gift of contentment so that it can grow and flourish.  We want to give them a life that reflects what has been put in them and guard their counter-cultural bent with every decision we make.

We want the path to seeking first the kingdom to be as clear as possible for our family and we want to have more resources freed up so that we can pour our lives out for the poor.

We understand that as parents, the life we live in front of them is the life they will learn to live themselves.  (No pressure right?? Geez.)

We want to see what it would be like to live freed from financial stress, to have an abundance of resources that were once wrapped around things that don’t really matter…what could be possible?  What good could we accomplish?  Who’s life could flourish because ours has been trimmed?

We want to show our wee ones that risk and adventure and faith and friction and FUN are all a part of life in the upside down Kingdom of God.   And that possessions, square footage, toys, clothes and stuff…all the stuff…has nothing to do with a life that is full, free and given.

Our littles are light years ahead of us on this, we are just trying to be like them when we grow up.

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We will be telling the story of going tiny here on the blog!

We are pumped…but also…going tiny is a bit of a thing folks.  It’s not for the faint of heart that is for sure.

Follow along as we downsize…and as we feel the sting and stretch of living on less….no doubt it will be comical.

Let me let you in on a bit of a sitch we have already faced:

My tall-drink-of-fine husband measured out our closet in the tiny house only to discover that ALL OF HIS 6 FOOT 3 HOTNESS could not fit in it.  Friends…he had to crawl on his knees to get into it.

This triggered a few giggles from me that abruptly turned into a full on crying meltdown.  I was smiling but weeping.

“What is this?  What emotion?” he asked me…still on his hands and knees in what was supposed to be our closet.

Stay tuned guys.