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moreA {Christian} Family Thanksgiving Activity: The Thanks Giving Tree {Free Printable}
On Wednesday, November 07 th, 2012Leaves aren’t ever purely green and not everything is as it seems. The kids and I walk through the orchard and November. That’s what I tell the kids. That all summer, the chlorophyll of the leaf, all that green, absorbs the sun and releases food and it this cycle of chlorophyll that cloaks the leaves’ pure ...
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moreWhy the Chicken Really Crossed the Road… And Other Important Things {Crazy Joy: 11}
On Thursday, October 11 th, 2012On the day that the chickens just up and crossed the road without their motives being questioned at all, the whole crazy grace of everything just stretched, down the backroads and si...
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moreThe Best Way to Handle Hunger Cravings {The Pumpkin Cannon Edition: Fridays on the Farm}
On Friday, September 28 th, 2012The men brought the pumpkin cannon. And all the church ladies brought pie, 160 pies. We made peach. And my brother rolled out of bed in the 2 am dark to begin the pig roast under stars. ...
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moreReal Secret to Effective Time Management
On Tuesday, November 01 st, 2011In the silent times : seek God In the painful times : praise God In the harried times : hallow God and in the terrible times : trust God. And at all times — at all times – Thank God. ...
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morewhen you open your hands to what is
On Monday, October 31 st, 2011It falls unexpected in October. A snow white whisper hushing the trees burnt all red. She stands at the window and I watch it fall behind her, her at the glass and the flakes so soundless, heaven on white wing. And I don’t expect it, in a room full of women and flashing laughter, the way she turns and says it quiet — “My daughter is dying.” Sometimes gr...
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morebefore you get to walk on water…
On Thursday, September 01 st, 2011Sometimes you just have to get into the boat. Because getting into the boat comes before you get to walk on water. Every miracle always begins with the first ordinary step of faithfulness. So I clap as they launch and they grin, us at this edge of beginning. ...
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moreweekends are for the light-seeking
On Saturday, November 14 th, 2009The way Your light dances, the way it plays the strings of the woods the chambers of this heart, who cannot believe in the realest, purest magic, that sang the world into being that sings of the crystal streets and a coming mansion in the sky? May your weekend wanderings, kind friends, lead you into Hi...
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How do Christians Seek Beauty?
On Friday, November 06 th, 2009The cold came for the color, drained summer brown, and the furniture vases, they’re open mouths, waiting for petals and I go looking for beauty in November. And when I fill them with tassels of broom corn from the garden, stalks grown from heritage seeds of the Shakers at Pleasant Hill, I trim each woody stalk and think ho...
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moreMaking of Art
On Thursday, October 22 nd, 2009thoughts from Wendell Berry… We had two friends, Harlan and Anna Hubbard, who had a little income from renting out Harlan’s mother’s house after she died. I think that was all the regular income they had. Harlan painted and wrote, and he and Anna played music every day. They lived, as Harlan put i...
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Slow Down: A Primer
On Tuesday, October 13 th, 2009I wake on a Tuesday, the one after Thanksgiving, and think its time to let the world take the passing lane, the fast lane, to hurry on to its places and people. I’m slowing and quieting, pulling off to the shoulder, cutting the engine and just listening, just looking. Just slowing down. The journey is the destination. I celebrate here. Where else is God? ...
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Thanksgiving Everyday
On Monday, October 12 th, 2009On a Thanksgiving weekend on a farm in Canada, we gather pumpkins from our patch by the barn, the seeds we planted in May swollen into orange suns of summer. And we pile the wagon high, too high, and the geese fly over, black arrows renting sky, season’s war cry before winter, and a Farmer Father, closing barn door behind him, offers muscle power. Children cheer. And wh...
