O the deep, deep love of Jesus, vast, unmeasured, boundless, free! – hymn by Samuel Trevor Francis We had a gathering of new faces here at the old farmhouse Saturday. Vans packed with kids started pulling in at six o’clock and little people unloaded...
Friends, I waited and watched and listened yesterday but by the time I slipped between the sheets last night, I had no words to offer you. Instead, this morning, as I am recovering from a long, intense week, I want to offer you the stillness of Psalm 131....
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt – marvelous error!- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. – from Last Night as I Was Sleeping, by Antonio Machado Two batches of oatmeal-peanut butter-chocolate chip cookies. One box of brownies. A double-batch...
This morning the world was cloaked, white on white, as snow fell and the mountains shied behind a sheet of fog. The cornfield stretched between, like a wide sheet of paper, empty. Lighting the fire, I feel the way these two days between...
Dinner time at our house is often insane, well, make that always insane. But every once in awhile, when I’ve had it up-to-here with the volume and intensity, I set a few small candles in the center of the table and turn off the overhead...
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