About Live Renewed

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Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. Colossians 3:10

My name is Emily, and I am the blessed wife of my awesome hubby, Jeremy, and mama to our daughter Kaelyn (Oct. ’07), and son, Brenden (June ’09), and baby #3 due in June ’12!

Live Renewed is all about living green and living frugally, I like to call it “frugally green”! I hope this will be a place where you are inspired to save the planet while also saving money at the same time!

Living Frugally Green

For me, this has been a process and a journey over the past four years.  The birth of our daughter, and my husband’s job loss soon after, allowed me to rethink the way that we had living a complete consumer lifestyle. I began to seek ways to live more simply and frugally. You can read more about my story here: Part I, Part II, & Part III.

I found that often living frugally also meant being easier on our environment as well. I began to read and learn about the importance of Christians caring for God’s creation. After reading the book Serve God, Save the Planet, by Matthew Sleeth, my passion for caring for this world that God has entrusted us with grew.

The care of creation became even more important to me than being “frugal”, but I still wanted to save money in any way that we could! So this is the journey that God is leading me on – toward becoming frugally green. I am passionate about encouraging and helping others learn to be more green, living more simple and natural lives, while still saving money at the same time. I would be honored if you would join me on this journey!

Wondering where the name Live Renewed came from?  Here’s my explanation. And if you’d like to become a Live Renewed reader, you can subscribe, either by email or in a reader, to get the latest posts, ideas and inspiration for living frugally green.

If you’d like to read more about where to start on your own frugally green journey, you can check out my Frugally Green Fundamentals.

I’d love to hear from you too, if you have a question or even just an idea for me, please leave me a comment or send me an email at emilymcclements at yahoo dot com.