The Balanced Barefooter

It’s the best place to start, right?

If you’re building something, you start from the very very bottom and go up – the foundation comes first. What’s your foundation?

What is the one thing on which you base your worldview, the lens through which you view and interpret everything around you? How do you determine what’s real, what’s important, what’s fiction, what’s superfluous? What determines your doctrines, your convictions, and your preferences – are where you draw the lines between those categories?

I can tell you what mine is – the Word of God.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to The Balanced Barefooter, a.k.a. The Blog That Will Offend Literally Everyone.

First things first – allow me to introduce myself. My name is Aeryn – it’s just like Erin, only cleverer – and I’m lots of different things that don’t all make sense to other people, but primarily a Jesus-follower, an intellectual, a wife, soon a mom (yay!), naturally-minded, overly ambitious, and disorganized.

I am a certified therapeutic riding instructor for individuals with disabilities, but due to a recent focus on getting married and starting a family, not currently working. My plan is to get back to it as a volunteer in the next few weeks, and start turning it into a career about a year from now.

What I am doing at this exact point in time, besides experimenting as a blogger, is mainly growing a baby and trying to keep my house and my husband from falling apart. I’m taking pretty good care of the baby and husband, but the house could be doing better if I weren’t – as stated above – disorganized by nature. I’ve recently discovered, however, that I’m actually capable of meal-planning, and this makes life go a whole lot better. I love cooking. I’ll talk about that here at some point.

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