Back To Roots
- Jennifer Thumm MA LPC
- Dec 26, 2025
- 3 min read
Christmas 2025, a simple, quiet time with family spent at my brother Dan's family home. Good food, good conversation, and a time of my boys sitting around the table playing their guitars and singing cover songs with the family. A moment of home, belonging, and a time of remembering where I came from.
Over the years it's been my heart's desire to bring people into this same kind of space. A space where they can feel known, seen, heard, and deeply loved. A place where there's no pretense, no competition, no earning approval, just a place to be and to find the person that you were created to be.
A space where kids can run free and get dirty and experience what heals their hearts and minds. We had that growing up. A simpler life, a hard working farm family who put God first and would give you the shirt off their back if you needed it. A community of families that showed up for each other when times were hard, where people didn't just disappear and slip through the cracks, where people truly loved each other through it all. No matter what the "all" was.
As Haven launches into the phase of offering intensives and retreats, we want you to experience that same space with us.
No matter where you've been,
no matter who you are,
no matter what you've done,
no matter what you're walking out.
The boys did a cover of a song yesterday with their Uncle Dan that represents where we're coming from and what we want you to experience as you gather around the table, take a walk, work with the animals, or sit around a fire at one of our Haven locations.
Where I Find God
The night I hit rock bottom sittin' on an old barstool
He paid my tab and put me in a cab
But he didn't have to
Cause he could see I was hurting'
Oh I wish I'd gotten his name
Cause I didn't feel worth savin'
But he saved me just the same
And that day out on the water
When the fish just wouldn't bite
I put my pole down, I floated around
It was just so quiet
And I could hear my old man sayin'
"Son just be still--
cause you can't find a peace like this in a bottle or a pill"
From a bar stool to that Evinrude
Sunday mornin' in a church pew
In a deer stand or a hayfield
An Interstate back to Nashville
A Chevrolet with the windows down
Me and Him just ridin' around,
Sometimes whether I'm looking for Him or not
That's where I find God
Sometimes late at night
I lie there and listen
To the sound of her heart beatin'
and that song the crickets are singing'
And I don't know what they're saying'
But it sounds like a hymn to me
Naw, I ain't too good at praying'
But thanks for everything
From a bar stool to that Evinrude
Sunday morning in a church pew
In a deer stand or a hayfield
An interstate back to Nashville
A Chevrolet with the windows down
Me and Him just riding' around, sometimes whether I'm looking for him or not
That's where I find God
From a bar stool to that Evinrude
Sunday morning in a church pew
In a deer stand or a hayfield
An interstate back to Nashville
A Chevrolet with the windows down
Me and Him just riding around talkin'
Well, I do that a lot
Well, I do that a lot
That's where I find God
Lyrics to "Where I Find God" by Larry Fleet and Connie Harrington and a video of what we want you to experience when you spend time with us.
Vocals and guitars covering the song by Garrett, Chase, and Luke and their Uncle Dan (https://youtu.be/zquyaxImH7o).
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