Gathering Mystery (a poem)

Eggs arrive  one-a-day, like manna.   We run  to check the nest box, Israelites leaping at first light, hands open, to gather the mystery of provision from  unlikely places.   Photo Credit. Linking with Playdates with God and the Unforced...

All of the Things of Fall

  All of the things of fall are as beautiful in their dying as they were in their birth, as if it were a farewell party, a last hurrah, a riotous wake. May I also be beautiful in my surrender, fading from green to brilliant orange or red, and may the moment of my...

The Woods (a poem)

Within you dwells a wood –  there are trails, some old and overgrown, others fresh-cut and, between them, wide open spaces filled with untamed growth. In those woods you are every age you have ever been, every age you will be. Those woods walk up the...

Harvest (I want to be home when the combine comes)

Photo Source: HERE. The neighbor’s dog killed our kitten.  He’s an old speckled hunting hound who hobbles painfully through a large fenced yard. Our kids feed him handfuls of bone shaped biscuits through the fence and run back and forth calling his name. ...

Half Moon Heart (a poem)

My heart is like the half-moon peaking out of the mid-day blue sky. There is more, always more, hidden; more than I can know or see. Lord, teach me to tend, carefully, the shadow places where deep roots dwell. Teach me to love, tenderly, the cool darkness, to prize it...
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