The Davie Family Adventure: Getting Settled and Getting Seattled.

The Davie family is established and functional in Seattle Washington. The Emerald City.

We have been in Seattle for about three weeks now. Our house is completely unpacked and our schedules are being repacked. As we pursue the directions and guidance of Jesus we are overcome with joy and gladness in his blessings. I (Justin) have been blessed with a well paying job over summer. I get to work with youth around the city and help them gain work experience while giving life advice and group building. It is strange to be in a secular position and working with youth. My boss will often use Christian nomenclature such as: being fed, getting it, filling up, and feeling a burning within. While he says these things the group does not actually have any goals for the students. It is an empty well. This does not make me sad, but rather gives me opportunity to connect the students and employee's of this institution with Jesus. Elisha is completely saturated with homework. Her workload would be a lot easier if she agreed with her Christian Scriptures professor, but he is a very... liberal thinking teacher as far as scripture is concerned. She is kicking butt and getting A's, but not without hours of dedicated reading and work. It is a blessing that God has given me such a well paying position. Elisha can stay home when she isn't in class and doesn't have to worry about working. We have started regularly attending church at Mars Hill. It is refreshing to belong to a church that takes the Bible so seriously, and is bold enough to be offensive. The funny thing is that all the topics that are offensive are only offensive to completely jaded individuals. I have never heard such high regard for reconciliation, women, families, scripture, community, and genuine love. Well, Seattle is great and the only thing missing is the people we love back in California. We hope to see some of you really soon.

Elisha doing her homework. She is such a smart woman, and a fantastic wife. There is not a day that passes that I don't thank my God for her. This isn't too shabby of a place to do homework either.

This is some dork about to do laundry. Apparently he fit all his laundry in his panniers and on his bike, so he could ride down street two blocks to his special laundry facility. Sheeesh.

Josiah being tuff as nails. He has a big scab on his forehead. He got in a fight: his head against the sidewalk. I know his scab looks bad, but you should have seen the sidewalk afterwords.