Wow a crowd + your taste buds with these easy to make stuffed dates!
Look, ma! First new blog post in two years! Heading to a holiday gathering and don’t quite know what to bring? Try this delicious cake with sprouted walnuts! The California Walnut Board created the cake recipe, although we’ve modified some of the ingredients — and obviously added sprouted walnuts! Click on the image to get a PDF version that is printer-friendly so you can make this amazing cake year-round!
This is the story of the scariest night of my life. Eisley's #insanseinsomnia has huge repercussions for our life. I've never quite slept the same.
My whole life I've wrestled with being torn between multiple interests. When I was a kid and adults would ask what I wanted to be when I grew up, like most, I would give several answers: "I want to be a fireman, or policeman, or astronaut," most kids would say. Except, unlike other kids, I wouldn't say "or."
In June 2013 we moved to a new town to engage in our second full-time ministry role. We poured our heart and soul into the work we were doing -- and it seemed to be having a meaningful and positive impact on the 400+ people we worked with around the world. In fact, things were going so well that we were in regular conversations with leadership about eventually running the organization. We were thrilled! Surely we were in our sweet spot - the place we'd spend the next 30 years of joyful service. Then, surprisingly, on December 5th, 2017, we were asked “to look for something different” by the leaders. There was no clear reason - they just didn't feel like we were going the direction they wanted to go, and instead of inviting into the new direction, they felt it'd be better if we left completely. Our world shattered in one fateful afternoon. Three days later, they asked us to stop coming to the office and stop communicating with our people around the world. They told our team that we were "taking a sabbatical" to reflect on "what God might be calling us to". We felt dejected; tossed out like yesterday's trash. Much of the hope we've found has been the result of finding our footing, even in such a long freefall. Our vision to help people reconnect with what matters most surfaced during that first critical year of recovery; the "expertise" of recovering from surprising and devastating setbacks was an un-sought-out silver lining. To keep you along with our journey...
If our Tenderly Rooted brand is us shooting for the moon, then this is our star chart. This is our far-reaching goal, our outlying aspirations, the orbit we'd love be gravitationally locked into. Perhaps morbidly, these are the topics we'd love to hear mentioned at our funerals. And we know we can't just hope people would associate us with these ideas, we are to lean into them now and until our funerals. Starting over a year ago, when we first penned this Credo, it became a filter, frame, and line-of-sight for assessing each and every decisions, whether big or small. Our remodel? Held to this credo. Our posts? Held to this credo. Our lifestyle, career, and parenting style? Held to this credo. To know us, look at what we're doing through this lens. Here is our credo as it stands today:
