842. The creak of the wicker basket when I take out the laundry
843. Dipping into the old tin pail for wooden clothespins
844.The colors of the Mennonite rag woven kitchen mat I’ve stood on since we’ve lived in this house—looks so clean and pristine hanging on the line
846. The growth smell of tomatoes and petunias
847. Shalom’s face framed in the smocked pink prairie bonnet
848. The curve of Levi’s back as he gently bends to water each strawberry plant
849. Stacks of meat, homegrown, filling the freezer
850. Boys hauling pails of manure in one hand, shovels in the other, faces red, determined to amend the back garden for a bumper watermelon crop
853. Joshua offering Hope his wooden flute from Ten Thousand Villages after she lost her’s somewhere between the slides and the van
854. Fledgling lupins coming—the Lupin Lady would beam
856. Exhortations: “Encourage one another and build each other up” (1 Thess. 5:11)
Lord, let me not profane today. But to hallow all that is common. This common life fills with meaning–because You are in it.
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