colorado

Just a couple of shots from my trip to Colorado. I got back last night around two in the morning. I am 23 weeks pregnant, traveled with a 2 year old and three carry-on bags from Denver through two connections to finally land in Atlanta, and it was all completely worth it. 

We stayed in a massive house in Winter Park, Colorado, elevation 8500 feet. (I didn't realize how much the thinner air would affect me, but it did.) We heard four people teach, who also stayed in the house with us and shared meals/conversations/life with us. We reunited with John, Bryce and Emily, and Andrew and Gretchen, amazing people and beautiful friends from Portland. I was astounded by how God met me there, and spoke to me about things for which I had been longing and crying out for healing. God was life-giving and intimately personal, as he has always been, and I left with renewed hope and a softened heart. I left affirmed, loved, and dreaming of things to come. 

The aspens are at the peak of their golden color in Winter Park. I wanted so much to take our family out in the woods with camera in hand, but it didn't work out this time... I have a feeling we'll be back :)

 I think the things that we talked and thought about on this trip will be seeping out of me for the rest of my life. I know that they were already in the works long before I got there... part of the story that God is telling in me and our family. I have a renewed longing to create and be a wife/mother/daughter/friend, and a renewed sense of who I am. 

I will be back soon with our soon-to-come little one's name and why we chose it.

love

paige