House on the Rock

Hi! My name is Cali. I’m a 5’4 high school teacher with an affinity for good grammar, snack table grazing, corporate worship, and the great outdoors. I married a cute guy I first saw at a baseball game when he was called up to bat and I could not stop gushing over his roster picture. He is the love of my life.

Jesus saved me in late elementary school, but my faith walk became real immediately following a season of senior-year rebellion that left me so broken and empty that I didn’t know if I’d make it to graduation. His grace has been sufficient every second since.

My husband and I are teachers, youth leaders, church planters, pickleballers, and people people. Our first couple years of marriage were marked by relative ease, minus some sinus infections and the occasional disagreement. Then, 2023 hit, and within a matter of weeks, we endured the incredibly traumatic death of my beloved mom, difficulty conceiving, and a horrific miscarriage once we finally did conceive.

And those were only the big things. We also had relatives in the hospital, a dear friends’ marriage shattered, multiple bouts of the stomach flu, financial struggles, conflict at work, and a career change. Again — within a matter of months.

But we’re coming up on the other side, and we’re more convinced than ever that the gospel paints every heartbreak with purpose, as

1. We learn to share in the suffering of Christ
2. We grow to cling to him with every breath
3. We are reminded moment by moment that this world is not our home
4. Scripture becomes bread of life for our starving souls
5. We see that His death and resurrection matters more than anything else.

So we’re going to write about it. I’ll write, mostly. Joe will check for heresy. But our mission is this:

To point ourselves and our readers to gospel hope as life seems to crumble beneath our feet.

I hope you’ll join us.