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the_team


pics from saturday night's sojourn team get-together. awesome to have the team from providence for the festivities. continue to thank God daily for this group of people, the families and couples represented, and the community they have provided for amy and i here in boston. love these men and women!

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new_additions


amy and i have been revamping our living room. we added the chair on the left last night, so that we can have his and hers wing-back reading chairs! we also picked up the chest so that we (finally) have a coffee table type thing so folks don't have to set their glasses on the floor any more. feels a little more homey now.

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giving_thanks


grateful for many, many things today (including but not limited to these pies). actually it's been a crazy year with many ups and downs, but in all of it so much to be grateful for. so, time to give much thanks for it all. 

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action


here are some of our UMB students in our "office" space on campus which happens to be right out in the open with all the other campus organizations. it is a great place to be and wonderful conversations and life happen right here. i appreciate our students so much for being present and for being fully "in" at school. love these kids!

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appreciation


amy and i took andre and aleyda to providence on saturday to see rob bell. andre and aleyda have been super instrumental as student leaders for our community at umass-boston. saturday was a good time to appreciate and honor them for their hard work this semester. we had an awesome time and rob blew our minds!

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after_sunday

what a strange weekend it's been for the boutry's. amy and i had our world's rocked on friday (perhaps more about that in a future post). bottom line: it was really unexpected and hard. and yet, life doesn't stop...we both had significant assignments: amy helped lead and teach at Sojourn's women's retreat and steve taught at REUNION on sunday morning. both went well and were really good to be invested in, even in the middle of pain.  

two thoughts come out of that: one is, we are so glad for our friends and community who walked with us through this weekend. the other is that giving yourself away, even when it would be easy (and excusable) to think about yourself and your problems is helpful and healing. probably in more ways than i realize right now.

so, thank you to our friends and family for being there for us this weekend.