It's All Well & Good.

In my mind it seems a little crazy.  Like I'm jumping into a squishy rubber, inflatable raft from a GOOD distance, not entirely sure if the whole thing will just envelope me like a scene I once saw in a movie, or if it might actually be able to absorb me and carry me as I am hoping it will.  Starting something totally new, totally different is scary.  Even this name, Well & Good, is already being used.  It's a health and wellness site that's very stylish.  So, who knows, maybe it's a first draft of a concept, maybe it will never amount to anything.  I'm praying.  I just care a lot about what is going on in the world and I think - I know - a lot of other people do too, I just don't think that they - we - always think to DO something about it.  And as a stay-at-home wife and mom of three kids under seven, one of which I homeschool, sometimes I feel paralyzed to be able to get out of my pajamas, let alone get out of my house, to DO something for my neighbor, my friend, or anyone outside these four walls.  Don't get me wrong - please don't get me wrong - my biggest DOs in life have happened in these four walls - well not these four walls, but all my biggest DOs have involved the four people I DO life with every day, and I absolutely love it.  I said I DO to my husband in 2006 on a beach in Delaware.  I actually used the word "squandered" in my off-the-hip, not-rehearsed vows - as in I would "not squander" him.  That in itself is a call to DO.  And man, have I done a lot in this marriage!  Then came the kids.  As soon as they were born, my mission in life changed.  All we have done is DO since we became parents.  All I want to DO is give them all the love and guidance and wisdom and discipline and opportunity to BE WELL & DO GOOD, and to know and love their personal savior, Jesus Christ with all their hearts and minds and souls, and experience the freedom and abundance of life that true relationship with the God of the Universe brings - and I hope that they learn to share that with others.  And I DO a lot of other things too.  I DO cook food for my family.  I DID quit my job to be home for my husband and kids.  I DO homeschool my daughter because it is the fullest life that bridges family, faith, and education.  And because God called us to it.  And now, I DO want to DO more for the world around me.  Maybe this is an outlet for me to escape the mundane, maybe it is a vanity project to see how well I can do at something out there in the "real world", but I really hope it's not.  I hope that the reason I'm doing this is because there is a GOOD place for it, that it will be useful.  Please pray with me as I start this journey of finding all the DOers out there and maybe even getting to DO a little of my own.  Be well and do good.

Love,

Jill