I am blown away. Jen is leading us on this journey in only a way that she can. Jen's books are always rereads for me, meaning I need to read them multiple times because there are just so many good nuggets in them. I grew up in a moderately Christian home, maybe. We went to church every Sunday and I went to a Christian school 3rd grade-12th. I was pretty active in my church growing up, you know on the church board in high school, regular stuff. In college I was active in christian groups and went to church most Sundays. But, I was told by multiple, better christians that my United Methodist Church wasn't good enough because it wasn't strict. I was told by better christians that going to the sunday evening young adult church, bible study, and a weekly praise/workship session wasn't actually going to church. So, once I had a full-time job, I stopped. I stopped doing things like go to church because I didn't want to get up another morning because I should or was supposed to. In the last 20 years we've gone as a family on Christmas, had our kids baptized, and were married in a church, but going to church is not part of our weekly routine. Guess what. Our kids have faith, they believe that God sent his son to die on the cross, so that they can go to heaven. They know about Noah, they believe that God created the heavens and the earth, even if they might also describe it like the big bang, because maybe that's how he created it, we don't know how he did, we just know that he did. All this to say, I am eager to go on this journey with Jen and to learn how she has paved the way for me to be myself and to be a Christian without the shoulds, without the judgement, and without the this is the way it's always been done mentalities.