Greetings!

Welcome to ej’s essential extras!

The name, given me by mother Claudia, declared a boutique would one day emerge at my hand, hosting essential extras.

While the boutique is still a dream to be realized in an inn one day — the first essential extra to emerge right now is this work from my hand-maiden’s hand unto the LORD.

In that sense, Be.come Consulting inn is the foundational heart of the essential extras, offering detailed work, mending the marred, battle weary and torn garments of praise for the return home to Shalom.

And that is actually the meaning of my name — Erin — peacemaker: it literally was a brown wooden plaque with parchment shellacked upon it that hung in my room since I was little from the Bible book store.

His heart, and mine, break for those who are weary and searching, and often we think of “them,” and sometimes we even see them right in front of us, “you.”

But when this shifts into … it is “me,” I am … at a loss in desolation … then you are ready for this work.

I could not have imagined such a website & technology to connect us years ago: Indeed this has “be.come” more than I ever thought possible!

And, I believe NOW IS the time for this service offering.

Thank you to all who have had a hand in helping me Be.come! And, I am grateful to the many who have tilled soil in other ways to prepare hearts to receive this work.

My hope is you will find our inn here a home in which to retreat and grow … to train up — yourself and those whom you serve…

— a sanctuary to Be.come!

I say “our” because this work would not be possible without the support of my husband and family.

So much of what I’m offering comes from what I needed on my own journey. I hope you receive encouragement, exhortation, and enjoyment.

This consulting inn is unique because it works in the space between … inn the relationships… catching “live” THE MOMENT in which you need a steadying hand … a ground wire. And, for that, we need a pure language.

That takes more than a class, a book, a retreat or a seminar imposing more information to digest and figure out how “to do” … or worse … how “to be.” I believe we are full up on information in this hour … and it is high time to just plain ole roll up the sleeves … to come alongside to help in what you may not even know you need help … or you do … and you are seeking ... one …

This work is likened unto describing driving in the wind or swimming in water … I do try to explain much …. but until you enter the function and jump in and encounter e-motion … it only remains a description, not the encounter, and certainly not the governing of such.

As His hands and feet, my answer out of Isaiah 6 and Isaiah 61 is “Here am I. Send me!” I am willing to take the hand of the one placing it in mine, as I so desired in my life.

I love to travel, and it is so much easier I find when someone takes me by the hand and just shows me the way. Then, I soon easily navigate on my own and can take another.

May these be refreshing, living waters that rebuild the ancient ruins.

I especially have a heart — for many reasons — for those taking on the extraordinary and blessed task of home-schooling their children in their vineyard. You begin too because the time becomes … ripe. Ready or not. And in rightly doing — the need for so many needed adjustments become profoundly apparent for a fine finish.

I want to help with that journey.

And, it is many of our journeys, really. We just do it … untrained, unmentored, unloved … we begin …

My question was always … who really understands the depths of my calling in all this and will work this promised land with me? Or, to term it another way — as I grew up with my father’s love of drafting and my mother’s finesse for home INTERIOR design — who will help me move this wall? or furniture?… and ….in home-schooling … this mountain? lol.

That really is the overall purpose of this consulting inn: To see deeply into your organization’s vision. And, sometimes that takes finishing something to begin something …

. . . finishing to begin . . .

My heart is with and for you. You can begin externally or internally … both will lead you to the depths of Shalom.

With great joy and expectation that the harvest at your table is abundantly bountiful . . .more than you can think …or imagine … overflowing …

~ erin