Peace
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moreSimply 3 Words For Every Day
On Wednesday, May 15 th, 2013He’d set the alarm for 1 AM on a Monday morning because sometimes a man has to do what he has to do. He’d slept the rest of a Farmer on the Lord’s Day. Then hauled to the fields in the pitch dark just as soon as Monday feebly birthed. Before that sun finally dragged up, he had a whole field worked up and half a ton of dirt ground into his jeans. ...
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moreWhen You Feel like Everyone is Bigger, Better, Smarter… { or ‘How to be a Star’}
On Monday, May 13 th, 2013When the fog meandered in lost on a spring evening in May, she hung her apron up in the back mudroom. She wandered down the back lane too. Down in the woods, she could hear them, the frogs singing, an invisible symphony. She knotted the one side of her skirt up to step over a pothole. She tried to make her way. In a world of reaching, how do you rest? In a cul...
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moreHow to Focus in an Age of Distraction: 10 Things to do Before you Click {Printable}
On Wednesday, April 24 th, 2013There are robins finally. And mud ringing the laundry room tub and the clocking ticking and the faucet dripping. We turn pages. Get turned around. Somebody stubs their toe. Somebody is held. Somebody holds on. A screen flickers. There is only so much time. {10 Things to d...
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moreBest Way to Get Through Hard Times
On Friday, January 18 th, 2013It’s what I sang over dishes. Sang on the days when I felt too weary to take another step, clean up another mess, change another diaper. Keep singing when I need to keep going on. It’s what I sing when the enemy attacks with lies, when I feel alone and scared,...
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moreBecause We All Have These Days: When We’re Just Hanging on by a String
On Wednesday, September 26 th, 2012I crack the eggs and the pan sizzles and there’s a kid hanging upside down off the couch, trying to knit a scarf. “Remember to use the plastic spatula and not the steel one, Mama? Remember what Dad said?” And her curls are all hanging down touching the floor and she’s doing a row of pearl with the blood all running way too fast to her face. I switch spat...
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moreThe 1 Thing You Have Got to Know… When You are Looking for Answers
On Monday, July 30 th, 2012The day our 6th child is born, a straight line wind rips through and tears trees in the woods straight out of the ground. We name the baby born in a storm, we name her Shalom. Her name means peace in Hebrew. We name her Shalom and she is born the day a storm mangles all our countryside, tears the roofs off a half a dozen barns, and Shalom means wholeness – a...
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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 are feeling overwhelmed…
On Friday, June 15 th, 2012When a sparrow gets caught behind the couch, it’s the light at the other end, behind the poor thing, that we keep trying to turn that one pounding heart towards. Because the thing is and don’t I know it: If you’re turned the wrong way, you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. So I’m kneeled on the floor in front of a poun...
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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 seeking simple, peaceful days …
On Tuesday, June 05 th, 2012No one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God. Thankfulness is the deep, contented breath of Peacefulness. “I tread no path in life to Him unknown, I lift no burden, bear no pain, alone; My soul a calm, sure hiding place has found: The everlasting arms my life surround.&#...
