VOTE FOR ME!!! {if you want that is}

Hello all!

I hope you all are well. I am writing you because it appears that my efforts to help people experience a fantastic wedding day has been paying off. I have been nominated for Evening Magazine’s Best Of! I am writing to ask if you’d consider voting for me. The last two years I have won awards from Wedding Wire, Martha Stewart, and Seattle Bride Magazine…what an honor! I sure would love to add this to my list of accomplishments. .

Voting time is from now through the beginning of October.

So, if you are so inclined, please stop by the Evening Magazine site and vote (1x for each email address ;)...and tell a friend to do the same! I know many of you have not seen me do a wedding, but you do know me and my character and could say if you’d recommend me to someone for officiating there wedding. If you feel like you can say that then you can vote and if you know friends or family that could do the same please spread the word!

To vote…just follow the link and click VOTE and follow a long. It should only take a few minutes!

VOTE FOR SEATTLE WEDDING PASTOR

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and for your consideration of voting for me. I hope you all are well, feel free to call or email anytime if you have any questions about this or if you’d just like to get together.

Most of all, thank you for supporting my work!

mess of me...

this rocks!

beautiful...

have you all seen this video yet? it is amazing! enjoy!

for all that love to play the air drums...enjoy!

Annoying (but very funny) mom sayings...

happy mothers day to all the moms!

Treat your momma right!

happy mother's day to all the mommas!

messy spirituality pt.01

i find that in my line of work you see the messiness of life coming at you in every direction. and yet at the same time you can enter a church and in general everyone seems to have everything all together and figured out. this always makes me wonder "what's the deal with all of this?" when it comes to being authentic the reality is we(people made in the image of God)are messy. we are people who are committed one day|moment and lazy the next. we serve and we are selfish, we love and we hate, we worship God and we worship ________. we are messy, inconsistent, erratic, lopsided, imperfect, and unfinished.

over the next who knows how long i hope to blog some more of my thoughts on this as i go through this book "Messy Spirituality - God's annoying love for imperfect people" by Michael Yaconelli. It is a book I have read a number of times and have always found it challenging, encouraging, and thought provoking.

here are a couple quotes to leave you thinking...

"spirituality is not a formula; it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection."

"The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives. Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives."

"spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God being present in the mess of our unfixedness."

stay tuned for more...

grace and peace,

r