Raising Mustard Seeds: It's Summer Time and the Livin's Easy

Intro

We named our blog “Raising Mustard Seeds” after the famous parable in Matthew’s Gospel. We had some mustard seeds of our own laying dormant in our hearts, and finally, the year before our marriage, we began to let those seeds grow. Our journey with Christ hasn’t always been easy, but it has bore more fruit than we could possibly imagine. And through the mustard seeds He planted in our hearts, He opened them to receive little mustard seeds of our own…

While Jesus in this parable is talking about how faith and our relationship with God should grow from something very small to something mighty and powerful, it’s applicable to our children as well. It is our hope that through prayer and proper parenting, our children will grow from small and helpless (tiny mustard seeds) to being mighty in Christ, so that they will be shining lights in the world and people will come to “dwell in the branches” of their faith.

So, this is our little space in the big internet where we will share our most likely crazy experiences as we start our family and we hope those who are close to us will enjoy laughing at us and with us, and maybe even learn something new :)

Monday, June 3, 2013

It's Summer Time and the Livin's Easy

And by easy, I mean super busy.

No. Seriously. I feel like the wheels are constantly spinning. Mostly, it's because we've got some big stuff brewing in the Rendall Household that is literally sucking up all our time and energy.

Chris and I were talking about how we have to sometimes stop ourselves in a moment and remember how sweet our time is with Gianna and to really "be" with her when we're playing, not distracted by a to-do list running through our heads, or whatever else has our attention. I know that 10 years down the line, we will not regret putting off brewing the next tea batch for kombucha or postponing responding to e-mails for another week to be with Gianna. I also know that I am very guilty of doing the opposite sometimes and thinking of my day from nap to nap, so that I can "get things done", so I am trying to make a concerted effort each day to ignore my to-do list for a little bit.

Today, my "stop" was deciding to ignore my ever growing to-do list for 45 minutes and have pool time with my favorite baby before nap time. Snapped some quickies of the wee one while she explored and studied her new environment :-)