A Long Work is a project by Taylor and Laura Birkey.
We started A Long Work in response to a sharpening conviction that conventional wisdom is wrong: faster doesn’t necessarily mean better. Some if life’s most important lessons take time. Some experiences stretch across decades. We are — too often stubbornly — learning this. Maybe you’re in the boat with us, so to speak: questioning the pressures this world places on you. Searching for deeper purpose in your relationships, your work, and perhaps even life itself.
The content you’ll find here is (mostly) guided by three principle assumptions:
WE are ALL meant TO DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL.
life’s most important work takes time.
All of us need help along the way.
A Long Work is not a finished work — it is a somewhat narrow path we’ve chosen fix our lives upon. We see it as an adventure filled with beauty, mystery, joy and sorrow. We trust our lives to a Creator whose original design is perfect, through whom all broken things are being made right, and by whom we are intimately known and loved. He is for us, not against us.
We are all on a journey. We are all becoming. You’re in good company here. We hope you feel welcome. Take a load off and stay awhile.