Beauty
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moreHow to Pray {Friday on the Farm}
On Friday, June 22 nd, 2012She prayed and she worked and the prayers were the work that would outlast fire. And that is what she thought, there at the window with the cloth in her hand. Pray ...
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moreWhen You need Rest …. {Fridays on the Farm}
On Friday, June 08 th, 2012When it grows loud in the corners of everything and the walls of the soul quake just a bit, I go and sit in the soil where the corn grows by His certain goodness and right out of the earth. Where the ...
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more3 Things to Hold on to When Life Hurts {Cherry Blossoms in Rain}
On Wednesday, April 25 th, 2012S he learned it haltingly in early spring, when the rain fell. When the edge of Japan washed away. When the sky slid down all the window panes. And a Sunday in spring, when a tornado sky rips up the earth, leaving this fury of questions, she plays on, the same song. Now surer, steadier. I stand at the windowsill. It still rains. The tomatoes plants try to stan...
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moreTop Time Management Secrets to Know
On Thursday, April 19 th, 2012‘God gives us time. But who has time for God? This may not make any good sense. A we...
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morewhen you are looking for His steadying hand
On Thursday, March 29 th, 2012That is what came at the end. At the end of the day, aft...
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moreWhy Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone
On Monday, March 05 th, 2012Do not let anything keep you – not anything — from flinging out of that sagging comfort zone, and right into the streets, eyes and mouth full of His wonder, to pant it in the marketplace the back alleys, the front fields, ac...
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moreFor the Hard Days {& real weather forecasts}
On Thursday, February 02 nd, 2012We’re not sure exactly who walked across the boy’s bedroom carpet with green paint on their heel. There is an Everest pile of laundry to be folded in the mudroom and another 3 to be washed and kids are maki...
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morewhat to cling to on the days you’re drowning
On Tuesday, January 24 th, 2012I ‘m tired and worn by noon when I sit there beside him and he peels back the skin of his orange in the light. He does this everyday after noon meal and he does it slow. I feel slow and there are kids and lessons and laundry and everything else. I’m trying to hold on. The curve of the peel, it cleaves to the sweet, and it’s the skin of the th...
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moreA {Nutcracker} Birthday Party
On Thursday, January 19 th, 2012On her second birthday, she awoke to balloons and a baby brother. She’s happily shared the cake ever since. But this year, as she approached her 13th, just before Christmas, and that little brother, Levi, asked for lazer tag for the big shared day and his three brothers cheered rowdy, she did wince a bit. And whispered in my ear if we couldn’t make cookies and fin...
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morewhen sickness knocks quiet…
On Tuesday, January 17 th, 2012When we meet an ill moment with a surrendered smile, it loses some of its sting. I bring her a cup with a prayer and she takes it up and her eyes light and nod. And too, a little tray of beauty, a cool cloth, a few favorite things, and a bud in a vase. Perhaps this is the...
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moreOf Kathie Lee & One Thousand Gifts & Favorite Things
On Tuesday, January 10 th, 2012There are days when one feels hushed and small. Like when the gracious Kathie Lee Gifford holds up a bit of your heart on the Today Show and says it’s one of her favorite things. {Consider pausing music by clicking the slider directly under the header? If reading in a reader or via email, click here to view? } And you feel small and broken before an uncontainable, beautiful ...
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moreA Year in Pictures
On Friday, December 30 th, 2011All the moments were hallowed whispers of something other — this crazy grace. How did I not realize that? ...
