Salt & Light
To the homemaker, the one who keeps house. I see you. I am you.
Sacrifices made and gifts well-kept season the place you’ve created. The vessel you abide in is not by chance; it is intentional, and purpose-filled. It follows the curve of your movements and longings. It catches the light along its edges and casts silhouettes. Just look and you will see your rhythms: in the walls, the cupboards and the emptiness. Within this home stands purpose, gratitude, and faith.
The home you make is specific to your family, to your tribe. It expresses values and rhythms. Rooms catch light and laughter as you craft moments and meals. This world may not appear to value you, but I do. Because it’s what you do throughout your day that informs what I do. In mapping your patterns and in attending to your dreams, everyday space transforms from a collection of rooms into your particular home.
What preserves you?
Do you bake bread or season plates, pinching spice and life into conversations and table settings? I will craft a keeping room so your people can encircle, gather and keep you company.
Do you create places of encouragement, quiet reflection, and communion? Let’s craft a room right sized with easels and hidden niches to read and retreat.
Do you measure, sift, season, sweep? Shelve stories or acorns or pinch pots? Tuck sheets, wipe paws or sticky hands, launder, play music, line up boots, watch birds, sow and harvest?
What lifts you?
Do you encourage health through light and green and an open window? I will craft an expanse of panes toward your garden, framing leaning limbs and stippled light.
Do you thrive by the firelight? I will craft vaults with knotted beams to hold warmth and bring the forest in.
Do you wander the your foundations, threading stone and block back to the land? Do you feed the birds, listen for their song, left your eyes to their shadows dancing in the eaves? I will craft you an outdoor room to meditate and celebrate.
Do you wave, welcome, or watch little legs pedal or rebound? Let’s set a stone threshold with a Dutch door to resist the mud but catch the laughter.
Do you watch as window sills and downspouts catch rain and sunlight? Do you notice the way the afternoon releases light through archways and hedgerows? Does the light slant at the end of the day at such an angle to light the dust, the fingerprints, in a moment only you can occupy?
Making Home
The edges and openness of the home you create sustain your partnership with another and become threads that scaffold, weaving memories and moments into thresholds and rooms. The weft and warp and waiting of this home is your offering: to those who you love most and those you’ve just met. It is significant and ripples through lives in everyday moments. Its impact bonds generations, infusing courage into first steps and zest into sage words from elders. Here is held rest, loss, healing, growth, and remembering.
Keeping House
The hospitality we offer skims the walls and floats rooms like light rising each morning. Home holds who we are, who we desire to be, and who we hope to serve. This keeping and attending is your gift, seasoned with salt and scattered with light. The home it creates is not frivolous or inconsequential. Celebrate and continue to craft this vessel that holds your one, beautiful and extraordinary life in authentic, faith-filled ways. Believe that the rooms you keep will keep others, and that by making this home you fulfill your deep calling to love.
