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moreReal Spring Cleaning
On Thursday, March 13 th, 2008What I caught began with an innocuous call, or so it seemed, mid-morning on Monday. An insurance agent needs a digital photograph of our geothermal heat pump by Friday, a formality for our file and his job. Which compels Dutch Farmer on Monday evening to remove every boxed up memory, Christmas wreath and invoice from the last 7 years out of the storage room to ...
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moreLight-hearted
On Monday, August 27 th, 2007I wake heavy, a heart swollen with responsibilities, hurts, failures. The weight pushes me down into the mattress, smothering. I seriously consider it: surrendering. What if, just for today, I pull the covers over my head, a larger-than-life white flag of defeat. I just don’t think I can unpack another day; not today. Press on. I am with You. Remember? Ye...
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moreI do
On Friday, June 29 th, 2007On a humid June afternoon, I bend over daisy heads nodding off in the heavy heat of the late afternoon, when the past comes again on a gust of cool. Dozing daisies brushing up against my skirt, I am transported back to my Dad stepping up on the backporch, worn farmer’s hands carrying a five gallon pail cascading with delicate yellow faces rimmed in white vei...
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moreDo What Mother Did
On Friday, May 11 th, 2007I sat on the edge of the bed last night, Darryl softly filling the night silence with slumber breaths. In the wave of the old glass mirror, I could see my Grandmother’s brown quilted sampler hanging on the far wall. Before me were the nine-patch squares of my mother’s wall hanging. Stitches to be fingered, run along to memories and heart places. B...
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moreAll His
On Wednesday, November 29 th, 2006From the pen and heart of Madeleine L’Engle: “In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there’s no...
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moreSeeking Peace…
On Saturday, October 21 st, 2006“Search for peace, and work to maintain it.” ~Ps. 34:14 (NLT) Lord, peace is hard sometimes. You are right. I have to look for it, seek it out. And yes, work to maintain it. Paths are like that. Sometimes hard to find, hard to maintain. But the places they lead to. Come, Prince of Peace. Help me find my way.
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moreRepenting and Renewal
On Monday, October 02 nd, 2006We have just completed the last of the 30 Days of Nothing…. and have just celebrated the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh HaShanah: “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.” (Lev. 23:14) Reading from “The Feasts of Adonai:” “Teshuva or repentance durin...
