Jason is a writer and pastor living in Oklahoma with his wife, Kristy, their five children, a Beagle, and a Bagle Hound.

​Settling into a worn leather chair with a freshly pulled espresso, Jason starts the morning with a practice of noticing what he sees, hears, and feels as dogs demand petting, someone needs help finishing homework from the night before, and a disagreeing groan from the kitchen announces that a favorite cereal is still gone.

In between each of these moments — not instead of them — he notices birds eating seed, an aging tree whispering wisdom, and dandelions tempting bees to aid their plight to overtake his entire lawn.

It is here, in the everyday-ness of these moments, where Jason and Kristy (Illustrator) have learned to pay for joy with their attention, and then write and paint about all of it.

Whatever the Weather is the result of many such mornings, colored by the changing weather, wins, disappointments, and losses that happen inside of a year.

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