Beauty
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moreWhen it’s Time to Turn… {April Nature Calendar}
On Tuesday, April 05 th, 2011Even from right there at the kitchen window, it’s like you can see it. :: How He’s doing it again, just like a promise, His, Doing it again, a promise kept, and I never have to worry, and it’s almost a witnessin...
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moreweekends are for His poetry
On Saturday, March 19 th, 2011:: May all your wanderings this weekend, kindest friends, see the poetry of His Hand everywhere the Creator God of the universe Who expresses more than one third of His Word to us in poetry who is the Word come to make us fully alive… :: :: :: :: {A very worthy listen today, from his devotions yesterday at Desiring God: John Piper on The Role of the ...
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moreHow to Worship Right Where You Are
On Thursday, March 17 th, 2011Just quiet days here of being and loving and giving and making and walking …. walking slow enough to know the deep joy of really seeking and seeing. :: :: Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel :: :: :: You, God, are my God, ...
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more‘and whatever you do…’
On Tuesday, March 08 th, 2011:: :: :: :: as we listen to Colossians, memorizing Colossians in a Year: Just 2 Verses a Week “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience… And over all these virtues put on love,...
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morewhat is your life really magnifying?
On Thursday, February 17 th, 2011‘Some days I pick up a camera and the lens is my ink, for cameras have sensor eyes, and pixels record. I slide it into a pocket, a thin point-and-shoot, and find another way to chronicle, to force the lids open; another way to receive the moment with thanks reverential. When he comes in from the barn, The Farmer Husband finds me with my hammer in hand, leaning over a plat...
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moreweekends are for patches of light
On Saturday, February 05 th, 2011:: May all your wanderings this weekend, kindest friends, lead to the shafts and islands and patches of light where you bask in the warmth of Him. :: :: All’s grace, :: :: :: We too pray that the Book Club @ DaySpring is a bit of patch of light this weekend? If you are looking to...
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moreThe Habits that Make all the Others Possible
On Wednesday, January 12 th, 2011When I told her that a habit is something that you wear, I felt it, how I caught on something, snagged. For days, I unravel. Forget figuring out how to form a habit. I’m not there yet. First, what are the few habits worth wearing? You can only layer so much. We put away the Christmas tree, box up the Jesse Tree ornaments, leave the infant in a manger figuri...
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morea year in pictures
On Thursday, December 30 th, 2010All the days held God. I don’t think I knew that. ...
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moreHearing the Symphony
On Friday, November 19 th, 2010E ver since that free concert for kids at the symphony, Malakai’s gone around wildly conducting life. A burst of hands, an exaggerated swoop, then a punctuating of thin air (the drum! the drum!). This makes him happy. He can’t stop smiling. ...
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morebeauty and happiness here
On Tuesday, October 19 th, 2010“… think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” —Anne Frank Photos: bits of His beauty here Share your thoughts? If you would like Holy Experience posts quietly tucked into your reader or emailed to your inbox for free…
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the only hunt that will ever feed the hungry
On Monday, September 27 th, 2010They line up, empty vessels, crocks he brought home. Those hard-working hands had set the aged pottery on the table. And every week I fill them with beauty, just with what I can find. Every week, shades and hues and color of the sky and earth meeting in petals. Every week I fill them, the ceremony of the gathering. Because I am discovering that life, just as it is, is about loo...
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moreA Brief Guide to Making Today a Great Day
On Tuesday, August 31 st, 2010Every day’s made a great day when we seize whatever the moment brings. When we cling to Grace and just laugh when things get tospy turvsy, when we find someone to share the ride and the adventure and the prayers, when the beauty of our journey is our destination. These are the moments made into days that ignite with...
