My name is Bethany, and I'm a military wife who, in 18 years of marriage (and counting), has moved ten times, birthed three kids (who've recently entered the pre-teen/teenage years--wild), started but did not finish a masters of Library Science (maybe someday), who drinks tea and reads either middle grade fiction or Golden Age mysteries (when I'm not chauffeuring kids or writing poetry). 

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I'm also a highly sensitive, INFJ, Enneagram 9. If you're not a personality-profile nerd like me, suffice it to say, moving and motherhood are hard, and the way I'm made often feels like an obstacle to living well the life God's given me.

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At times my desire to cultivate community and make our home, which is ever-changing, a place for people to be known and loved seems to collide with my desire for peace and stability, for that which is quiet and slow. But I'm learning that points of friction are points of growth. 

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I'd like this blog to be a record of those moments when I yield to God's wise and loving hand and watch him use the friction I encounter give my life shape--my ordinary life, our family, our home becoming a vessel of grace. 

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Thank you for joining me. So glad you're here.