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...

Abundance (Among the Raspberries and Cucumbers)

I stood on a steep, wooded trail eating raspberries by the handful.  In that moment I was only my outstretched arm, greedy fingers prying plump berries from large clusters.  I was eyes trained on the color red hiding beneath green leaves; I was only a gaping...

Never Lost

One of the twins was missing for a while the other day.  Not alarmingly so, but gone for long enough that I thought to go and look for him.  Striding around the garage, I saw him stretched tall on his tippy-toes at the corner of the back fence where the...

Spring is the Gospel Season

It started with a crocus or two.  Delicate blossoms like bright purple tissue paper, twisted.   Then, later, the daffodils bloomed.  Just two, opening on a cold rainy morning that left them covered with ice, but they endured. Now dozens of yellow...
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