So I was on here tonight (first time since May) and decided to blog...partly because I realized my last blog was called "Mustache Wednesday"...that is ridiculous...and also because I have something to blog about!

First I want to thank all of you for writing me messages and comments. I do read them all, but there's no possible way to answer them all at this point in my life. I wish I could! Some of you have asked me very specific questions and I'm sorry that they've gone unanswered. Maybe in another season of life I can be better at answering - like when my kids are grown? : ) Anyway - thank you so much for all of your encouraging words.. I do read them!

So....this early Spring we made a decision to leave Franklin, TN, our home of over 10 years and move to Atlanta, GA to be a part a new church. We've had messages asking questions and to confirm the "rumor", yes, it is with Louie & Shelley Giglio and some of the other worship leaders of Passion. Since the day we first heard about this idea our hearts were completely there... I even dreamed the night before that we sold our house and in some way I felt already prepared to "let go" when we heard the news. We never planned on leaving Franklin - we loved our home there, loved our church and friends and all 3 kids were born there...it's home! I'm sure some of you have experienced this before - but you don't understand until you do - God will just take your heart and completely lift it from where you are and move it to where He wants you to be... we all of the sudden had this ache to be in Atlanta and knew that the season was over in the Nashville area.

We moved because we had a genuine sense of God leading our family there to be a part of the very beginnings of this church... not because anyone asked us to, or because we felt like it was a great opportunity...but because of God's leading. There's no way we'd uproot our little family for any other reason. I remember the day we got the news about the church I prayed and said, "God if this is really you, reveal this to Nathan and I'll follow". Just a few days later Nathan came to me and said, "I feel like we're supposed to go and we need to put the house on the market". So we listed the house and before we even put a for sale sign in the yard the house SOLD for WAY ABOVE what we ever thought we'd get for it! It sold in just 4 days...all glory be to God! We know that is nothing short of a miracle in this market!

God has continued to cover every part of our leaving and our arriving...we're astounded... So we're here in Atlanta...actually right now we're in a little beach house on the Georgia coast. I guess I forgot for allot of my life that Georgia had a coast...it's actually really pretty...we came through Savannah...lovely. We've had to be out of our house this week for renovations and so we decided to take a quick drive to the beach for one last summer trip! The kids have LOVED it! Noah did get stung by a jelly fish this afternoon - he said he'd never go in the ocean again...but I have a really good feeling about tomorrow morning... :) Ellie, our oldest daughter pretty much looks like the Coppertone girl - you know with the blonde curls and the tan line on her bottom? She was made for the beach! She could just stay out there all day and be happy... She starts Kindergarten next week and she's counting the days! Annie Rose ate two handfuls of sand today - one this morning, one this afternoon...she's exfoliating her bowels I guess... She crawls fearlessly towards the ocean,it freaks me out... she also crawls fearlessly towards the Seagulls and gets SO MAD that they keep walking away the other way... she so wants to get her hands on one!

Anyway - we have a busy Fall coming up with traveling - Nathan is going to England for two projects and I'll be going on part of the Passion World Tour in October. We hope the whole family can go to Mexico City - we so want the kids to see with their eyes what God is doing all over the world. Pray for us if you think of us! Check out the World Tour on 268generation.com. Also - check out onemillioncan.com - a website that enables you to make a difference right now, tonight, where you sit...to impact the World forever...for real... : )

We also plan to finish my record! I know we've been saying that forever - but we've also known about the church for quite a while and that has consumed our hearts and we needed to move this summer to get the kids situated before school starts - so we plan to get writing again and finish the project. I keep trusting that God knows the timing for it all! It will come...

Blessings to all of you tonight - please pray for us if you think of us - pray that God will bring wisdom & peace during this transition for the kids especially and that we'll shepherd them well through all of this....

love
christy