I'm apparently a blogger now

Hi, family. I love all of you. Thank you, Jess for making me what I always thought I would never be... a blogger :-)

I don't have too much to update you guys on. Today, after a month of job hunting, I GOT A JOB. Yes, Gentlemen and Ladies. Yes. God is Good. Ewing, Blackwelder, and Duce, Insurance Company hired me to be a Receptionist. I will be working full-time, 8am-5pm, with health and life insurance, and retirement. I have a real effing job!!! I don't even know how a 401k works, but my new employers match what I put into it up to 3% of my salary. What does that mean? It means I'm officially an adult.

I love all of you. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for writing on the blog so that we can all keep up with each other!

took me a while to figure out how to even read the blog... and much longer to figure out how to post... why didn't i just read the email jess sent.... now i see that there were directions in the email... jess don't we live in the same house still? you gotta help me out girl.

well hello my sweet family. i love you all so much.

i'm working at the coffee shop... in shelby. i work M-F 7-4.... which means i go to bed early and get up early!! me and brent work the morning shift together and we really make a great team and have fun together... but i must admit that when people come in and order a cinnamon roll and a venti mocha, as i swipe their card i wonder if they have a lot of money and have 7 dollars to spend on coffee every day ($35/week, $1800/year) or if i'm sending them deeper and deeper into debt... anyways, food for thought. oh well, they get their drink, and i keep my job. that's how the economy works.

i'm adjusting to this new life here. it has been a hard but good transition...

Quotes to share with you to remind you how great this town is!

So Jess, Jeff and I are sitting here in the coffee shop here in the rainy town of Boiling Springs. Jess wrote her first blog, Jeff wrote his first blog and now I am writing my first blog. So after Jess and Jeff wrote their first blogs we all high-fived in a circle! To create a visual for all of you! I love you guys and I love my husband and how funny he really is. I just wanted to remind all of you well, mostly Kaitlyn," I wont me a damn eagles egg." I just wanted to write that to remind Kaitlyn of a memory we had together so she could write about it in her next story. I also wanted to share with you a quote from a students shirt at Burns Middle last week. "We aint no DAGGUM water-girls." Amazing... I love and miss you all so much. Oh, and I am pumped about this blog! Thanks Jess for bringing us all together again!~Britt

life without cdh...or more importantly, cdher's

hello friends and family. this blog is going to be cool. only because its not facebook. and other people dont get to see what we write. so shit. and damn. take that facebook "wall". i miss all of you, some more than others, but nonetheless, all of you. jk jk. i will make a couple of promises early. one- there will be no poetry like jess on my posts. lame. and second- they will always be short. nobody wants to read all day. look forward to "talking" to all of you soon. peace, love and cusswords. bye.

jeff

It's a bigger picture than you think...

My CDH family I miss living life with you. Living here in Boiling Springs without all of you has been quit an adjustment. It's been hard. Hard not having a big family to come home to that is so loving, supportive and encouraging. Hard not having the scheduled family dinners together and many other random things that I miss. However, it has been really fun to learn how to be in this community outside of CDH. Starting new in a place that is now familiar. Anyways, I love living in South Glenn it is a great neighborhood and cool to continue to be apart of an intentional community. I just got a job at BCBG (a designer clothing store) which I am so grateful for, other job ideas didn't work out. It has been a trying time though to try to find a job. As some as you know I am going to India in December and Israel in the spring so I needed to find a job that was flexible. This is something that I wrote in the waiting and transitioning time the last month. 

It's a bigger picture than you think

"It is a bigger picture than you think

It is a bigger plan, purpose, story.

Your life effects more than just yourself.

You are interconnected like it or not.

Don't loose faith in the One who gave you the purpose.

The One who awaken desires.

The One who is showing you who to become.

My life is not my own.

Show me where to go, what to do.

Take these emotions of doubt, anger, and sadness.

Restore vision, purpose, what is important.

Please give me opportunity, use me, help me to chase after you and not the purpose.

Help me to have kingdom eyes.

Kingdom that is here.

"We are a broken people who need each other and God, for we have come to recognize the mess that we have created of our world and how deeply we suffer from that mess. Now we are working together to give birth to a new society within the shell of the old. Another world is necessary, Another world is already here."

- Shane Clairborne, Jubilee Declaration

What is the bigger picture for me?"

Be encouraged, I love you all so much!

Jess