Genesis

Perhaps you're wondering about the seemingly weighty name of our new blog, or perhaps you're wondering how my husband convinced me to do this new-fangled techy thing (its okay Karin, don't be afraid, it's just the world wide web! :). And as I often like to approach things from unorthodox angles, I'll tackle the latter first. There wasn't a lot of convincing, to be truthful, in fact most recently it was my idea that we actually do it. When our friend Jodi (first) moved to Brussels for work after I began to plan our wedding (which I will blog about more later, of course!), she half-joked that I should write a blog while doing it, but I only seriously contemplated that for about 3 seconds given my already busy schedule and the addition of wedding planning to the heap. But now that we are mostly initially settled in to our happy marriage, I think we both have a lot of things to say (read: random thoughts) both individually and as a couple (read: celebrity couple name "Bolivia"), and I thought a blog would be an interesting outlet. That and perhaps this would be one way to keep the many friends we're blessed with updated on how we're doing and what we're up to. So either life will catch up with us and we'll neglect to post often, or we'll have too much to say - we'll see how it goes, stay tuned!

As for the blog name, after partcipating in an engagement class through our church we found ourselves talking quite a bit about the discussion we had about the concept of a covenant. We wanted to embrace this, and included one of its biblical mentions (Psalm 111:9 "He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever - holy and awesome is his name") as a part of one of our readings and songs (thanks Mariam!) at our wedding ceremony. Then this idea of the commitment we were about to embark upon became not so much intimidating as it was refreshing, as if it was simply a natural progression towards this life together that we knew we wanted. Now I know marriage is not that simplistic, but the blog name reflects our mutual vows to each other, as well as our hope to honor God with our lives.

Happy reading, friends!