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(photo via Unsplash: Gary Bendig) I walked out the back door and circled around toward the front of the house one recent Saturday morning, looking for the shovel. I suspected it had been left leaning against the porch after a recent gardening project. A...
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Photo credit: Damien Taylor – Novelist Billy Coffey gave a great talk and reading Saturday evening. This past weekend, three writers gathered two dozen more behind barn walls. In a square room, wrapped in wood, floored in concrete, we sat around...
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I had the joy of speaking at our little church this past Sunday and, because I got to choose the text, I focused on 1 John 4:7-19. I talked about the love of God that we are made from and for – the love of God that abides in us and invites us to abide in...
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Summer hit our house like a freight train when the kids got off the bus last Friday at 1:15. It’s all good, but intense. I’m still writing, but with preaching this Sunday and preparing for next week’s (!) writing retreat, I didn’t...
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Sunday afternoon I left my husband with seed packets of Zinnias and Dahlias and walked up, across the yard, to look for a spade in our overflowing garage. The planting of those flowers, four packets, was what I requested for Mother’s Day this year. I don’t...
