Well, since I have done absolutely no writing this entire week (egads!), and wanted to leave you with at least one post before the weekend, I decided to give set you up with a look at our new home.

We are currently staying at Alison’s mom’s house, which sits on about two and a half acres in the small town of Graton (outside of Sebastopol, which is outside of Santa Rosa). I made a set with some pictures of the property on Flickr; you can check em out here.

It is an amazingly beautiful place, and we are blessed to be here. In fact, we are overwhelmingly blessed in all areas of our life. We have a good marriage, two healthy children, a free house, a good church, excellent family, excellent friends, a home business, and I get to work from home (sheesh; it’s like a fairytale or something).

The book I’m reading now is “The Nature of the Atonement.” This book effectively blew my mind. The first view, the “Christus Victor” view, is pretty radical, and gave me a lot to think about. Gregory Boyd authored it, and I thought it was well and reasonably argued; though I think he’s what you would call “on the fringe” of evangelicalism. For example, he believes in the openness of God; that God limited himself to not knowing future events, because He could not possibly know the future without negatively affecting our free agency. But, according to this view, he’s a real good guesser. So basically he’s right about guessing the future 100% of the time. I’m not sure we’re splitting hairs yet, but we might be close.

Anyway, good stuff. I look forward to reading the rest of the book.

On behalf of Simon, and the rest of the staff here: have a great weekend!

Hello from sunny Sebastopol!

Well, we successfully completed phase one of our move. It’s been a hectic few days followed by a few extremely relaxing ones. I am supremely blessed with the opportunity to work from home, both with the company Grass Roots Software and with our stroller business. I already feel infinitely more lazy than I ever have. I haven’t let myself wear pj’s to work yet–hopefully I’ll be able to hold off as long as possible.

I’ll hopefully be writing again soon. I tried to reach a logical stopping point in my story before I made the move, and now that I’m at that logical break, it’s hard to pick the ball up and start running again. But you know what I always say: Onward! Here’s a few pics in the meantime.

My New Digs:

My Lovely View: