Nature
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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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moreWhen You are Looking for Signs of Joy … {Words for Lent}
On Tuesday, March 27 th, 2012The water in the woods, it warms in the sun this week. The dog plunges right in. That was the first miracle of the skin bound God: a turning of water into wine. A spring pond in the woods at the end of March, it’s a bit like that — a turning of water into wine. ...
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moreThe 1 Reason Why You have to Slow Down
On Monday, March 19 th, 2012We hear them far off in the woods, just as the sun sinks further down. And I stop. Because who doesn’t stop when the world slips up behind and surprises you? So we stand there and listen long and neither one of us can stop smiling and I almost forget to breathe. The frogs have return...
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moreThis is Who You Are — Right Where You Are {Sermon on the Mount} {Video} {link-up}
On Friday, February 17 th, 2012{Consider pausing the music by clicking the slider directly under the header? And if reading in a reader or via email – click here to go for a walk in the woods on a foggy day on the farm… Oh, and next time? I’m praying for sun and recording a different view? Kids? Goats? Hens? Sunshine? } And these words I’m trying...
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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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moreCalvin, Contemplation & Creation: why there really is time for a walk today {free nature calendar}
On Tuesday, October 04 th, 2011‘The contemplation of heaven and earth is the very school of God’s children.” ~John Calvin, Institutes :: Every human being is “formed to be a spectator of t...
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morejust to still …
On Thursday, September 22 nd, 2011The quieter you are, the more grace you hear. We go down to the river and water has this way of showing me how to listen. Their toes make this pattering dance in the stream. Light dr...
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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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moreThe Real Weather Forecast for the Weekend
On Friday, August 26 th, 2011He says he can feel it, the way fall’s beginning to blow in, the sky all undecided. She stands at the sink, elbow deep in suds and steel pots, while he tells her about weather. Tells her about patterns and forecasts and radars and frontal systems. The Farmer follows the sky the way some men follow sports. Staying up late, following the ways of God… She scrubs potato...
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moreHow to Really Find Yourself {Free Nature Calendar}
On Friday, June 03 rd, 2011On the edge of a star-birthing cosmos, on the rim of a planet spinning in black, on the fringe of a summer unfurling, there is this happiest relief for the tad dizzy and weary, to find that we are a people held. :: :: “Let the bel...
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moreweekends are for beholding
On Saturday, May 28 th, 2011‘I know not how to express otherwise… The appearance of everything was altered; there seemed to be, as it were, a calm, sweet, cast, or appearance of divine glory, in almost everything. God’s excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds and blue sky; in the grass, flowers...
