Windows

I left Colorado and drove to Sheridan Wyoming. (I gotta admit the drives across the mid-west have definitely had their pretty moments but have also been the most miserable!) I stayed with my sister-in-law's friend Katie and her husband Gene.
Sheridan has that small town feel, rode in on my civic hybrid feeling like that big city woman, everyone seemed to be starring!  I walk into their home and the basement (Katie has nicknamed it the "death room") is full of furs and stuffed deer heads. (a little different hobbies in the mid west than we have in Seattle!) Later that night we went to one of their friends houses for dinner and a couple rounds of pool. We were home by 11 and got settled in. Life seemed to move slower here, and I kinda liked it. (Not to mention Katie and Gene were hilarious and so sweet to me, so that could have been part of it!)

I woke up to Gene and Katie knockin out some window in their kitchen (and sharin some expletives, haha) And I don't know why I was so impressed, but I loved how Gene went about it. He's definitely talented and knows his way around the tool shed, but he's not a professional. Thought it was cool how he kinda just got after it, startin tearin things apart and then when he ran into a problem, like the siding on the house being in the way, or the dry wall in the kitchen, or the measurements being a bit off, he took it one step at a time.

It's cliche and obvious but it was a good reminder to continue to get after things, to not let my lack or experience or fear of doing it wrong get in the way or paralyze me. Recently a friend said something like, "It's so much easier for God to move people that are already moving." Which seems to make sense..not that God's ways should be easily translatable into simple scientific terms, but its basically pure physics. How much harder is it to move something when you have no momentum? It was a call to continue to move, even when I don't know what's next (or even when what's next is more problems).

After I had left I got a text from Gene and Katie with a picture of their new window...you would never know by looking at it how much work went into it or that it all didn't go according to plan or that there may or may not have been some jimmy-rigging in the process, but man oh man, it was a good lookin window!