Welcome to nicholeschrock.com! This has been a dream of mine to have a place to share learnings and write about life and our families journey with the Lord. I had a blog years ago before I had kids and I truely had a blast writing and sharing about life. As self proclaimed nerd its fun to have a place to share my findings, learnings, and instights with the world. recently I have learned that we should flow like rivers instead of lakes when it comes to that in which we learn. Its so true. why would we keep all our God learnings to ourself and not share them with the world. so this is my tiny step to share our story as a minor subplot in Gods grand story. God has been prompting me to dive in over the past 5 months. A 2020 quarantine will do that to you. although I’m not 100% set on what this will all look like. Who says you have to wait til you have it all figured out. If we did that, 1/2 of us wouldn’t ever step into anything new or wait that might be just me as an ennegram 6. What I do know is that I want this to be a place for learning and conversation, a place of sitting in the awe and the mystery of the gospel and a place where we can share and sit in the tension of the messy middle. I am a big believer in grace and the idea that God meets us in our mess and is willing to sit there with us. Yet he loves us so much that he won’t let us stay there.
So just a bit about me….(I won’t give all my secrets away just yet) I am a country girl at heart. I was born and raised on my family farm in Minnesota where we grew cash crops. There are many lessons learned here on the farm that I am sure I will share. the funny part about this though is with all my lessons of growing things you would think I would be good at keeping my plants green and my garden prosperous and healthy, yet this is not the case. Yet this doesn explain a bit of my facination with God as a gardener. I love dogs, nature, and zoning out on something deeply. What it is doesn’t necessarily matter. It can be a tv show, a deep dive into the bible or a relevant topic, or completely getting lost in the beauty of the nature around me. I like to let things take me on a journey. This is where my love of capturing life through my photo lense came from. I love capturing moments on those journies to help me remember where I have been as it launches me forward to what is yet to come.
I recently celebrated 15 years of marriage to my handsome hubby Adrian. We enjoy a love of kayaking, laughing together, renovating our home and for the most part we like to bring each other joy. I love that he bring my dreams to life. It is one way that I get to see God in human form here on Earth. I come up with ideas and he has this uncanny ability to design exactly what I am wanting and then make it happen. God gifted me with this amazing man as he is also my complete opposite and he grounds me too. Around year or two into our marriage we unexpectedly started a family. Yes…yes…yes…I know how babies are made. We just never dreampt with our amazing math grades we would mess up so badly when counting and monitoring our fertility times. oops.. We weren’t ready but we also weren’t really not ready. Gods timing was now and we jumped in head first. God blessed us with our amazing, handsome and super smart son Jackson on August the 10th 2007. We were naive first time parents and had no idea the adventure that layed ahead. At birth Jackson was diagnosed with VACTERL association which is a grouping of various midline abnormalities. Over the course of the first 8 years of his life he underwent 21 surgeries with a kidney transplant being one of them. His dad was able to donate the kidney. He is our couragous warrior. About 2 years into that Journey. God blessed us with a second child. We absolutely weren’t ready for another! Yet Gods timing was perfect. She was a beautiful, 5 lbs baby girl who had a mind of her own and came 8 weeks early. She was true to herself still to this day and dramatically just wanted everyone to notice she was here. She is brilliant and loves people deeply. Then the gift we never knew we needed came along when we were absolutely ok with how life was rolling along. We had chosen to be done having kids. Yet again God’s timing was perfect. She enter the world with her own unique enterance and has continued to bring us Joy and laughter as she beats to her own drum. She is fiesty, full of life, incredibly smart and clever and is going to run something someday. My prayers are its leagal and it serves our Mighty God.
I guarantee among the many stories I will tell you of the lessons I have learned You will hear stories of these three as parenting has taught me more about myself and God than anything else I have ever done. I look forward to this journey together. I pray it is a blessing to us all. Yet most importantly that our conversations and our interactions bless our Lord and savior and seek the unity of people His heart has always desired. I believe in that goal we will be able to commune with him in as close of an intimacy of the Garden of Eden that we can here on Earth.
we will wrap things up in this way…because this is a conversation not just me rabbling thinking I know it all. In the comments tell me something about you, where you are from and one thing that has intrigued you about life in these last few challenging months.
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