About the Design

Very often in Christian life, and especially in the business world, we try to represent ourselves to other people as clean, polished, freshly painted individuals and businesspersons. We do this in hopes that we'll be accepted and ultimately loved and/or trusted. But, this is the exact opposite of what we are really called to. We are called as Christians, both in our personal and professional lives, to be open, transparent human beings that willingly expose ourselves to one another. In that exposure, two things happen. One - everyone around us discovers that we have a few loose, or even missing, screws...that we are not polished and our paint certainly is not fresh. But second - we become accepted for who we really are, not for who we want people to think we are. And there is an overwhelming beauty in that exposure; there is a freedom in accepting your faults and having those faults accepted as well.

So, for this site, I look at it and see an image of a worn out paint job - cracked and weathered by the forces of nature. But behind the artificial coverings of man, I see nature in its purest sense. I see a fully exposed piece of wood viewable just as it was meant to be. I see a sign missing a screw, but still being used to convey the message of it's creator.