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31 days in a peaceful home

9/30/2013

 
by christina britt lewis and timothy dean lewis
writing on a barf bag
our world came crashing down last thursday afternoon.
just a few hours after we decided to be more bloggy bloggers and do this 31 days thing.
just a few hours before we were supposed to go away for a fun family weekend.
seriously.

we live in a peaceful home. after just a few less than 31 years together, many of them completely hellish, tim and i have just about mastered the convoluted art of living and loving well.  tim is a therapist, i am an interior designer. we help you redesign your world so you love coming home.  our boys are teenagers who think we hung the moon despite all of our protests that they are the moon hangers. 

and it all fell down. on thursday afternoon. so we decided we were not qualified to write about peace.
by friday morning, we knew our weekend was still a go. although it was hard to imagine it would be fun.
so off we went. and fun we actually had. 

time away was what we needed. we had time to talk. really talk. there are no secrets in our family. we talk about it all. the good. the bad. the ugly. and this is some serious ugly. as we talked and talked we came to see that a peaceful home is not a perfect home. we all make BIG mistakes. sometimes, our world comes crashing down, just like everybody else. but we believe that all of it...ALL of the BIG mistakes and the BIG bad ugly works together for good. 

can't even tell you how many times this came on the radio this weekend. so sing with us...
(Bastille | Pompeii)


how am i gonna be an optimist about THIS?
oh where do we begin? the rubble or our sins?
we are not sure yet. but we KNOW this...we choose peace.
the kind that passes understanding. 
we've built our whole wide world on peace.
so we wrote this on the plane on the way home. an hour ago. on a barf bag.
and we are going to keep on writing for 31 days.

peace be with you...
tim
christina
cole
camden
george 

day one | people
day two | yard
day three | fear
day four | television
day five | ugly
day six | stuff
day seven | kangaroo
day eight | sex
day nine | love
day ten | books
day eleven | give
day twelve | mistakes
day thirteen | argue
day fourteen | george
day fifteen | collections
day sixteen | windows
day seventeen | reflection
day eighteen | safe
day nineteen | words
day twenty | funny
day twenty one | kids
day twenty two | art
day twenty three | dinner
day twenty four | keys
day twenty five | invite
day twenty six | perfection
day twenty seven | kitchen
day twenty eight | suckiness
day twenty nine | swim
day thirty | God
day thirty one | gratitude



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