Seeing God
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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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moreWhat We All Need to Really Breathe
On Tuesday, November 13 th, 2012Six times my mama lies in ER this past week, waiting news. Good doctors can have degrees and no answers. My sister gives up long days and advocates on knees and in waiting rooms and Mama and her, they sing hymns and drown out clocks and fears. I rub Mama’s feet during the short nights and the late watches. I massage th...
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moreHow to Make Any Place Happy
On Wednesday, October 24 th, 2012And after 11 years here, we paint the walls white, all the walls white, right over the shades of softest green, because in the beginning I wanted a cocoon and now I just want clean, the quiet of clean. Because if you’re saying the average nowadays family has two kids? And we have three times the average with these ridiculous six— then you multiply the age of these...
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moreThe Truth about Really Having it All
On Friday, September 21 st, 2012I t was after the waves. After the waves of contractions, after the waves of blow out diapers and wet nursing pads that leaked through the let downs and the damp spit blankets that piled high at the bedroom door. Long after the waves of colic at 3 am and the 4:30 am crying, both the swaddl...
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moreWhy You Really May Need to be Done with Safe: Being a Dangerous Disciple of the Unsafe God
On Thursday, June 07 th, 2012My Gran, she’s taking slow walks outside the hospital now. Her heart’s growing stronger, beating certain. I wash down the cupboards in the kitchen. I pray for Gran’s heart attack recovery, for each step she keeps taking, ninety-one and frail-boned and Irish-determined. Life’s a risk and maybe she’s stronger than I am, accepting each heart beat, ea...
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moreHow to be glad: Friday on the Farm
On Friday, April 13 th, 2012“David said it all: I saw God before me for all time. Nothing can shake me; He...
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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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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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moreSo all is grace?
On Tuesday, August 23 rd, 2011So Shaun Groves drove up the gravel lane here last night. We heaped mashed potatoes and roasted herbed ham and fresh sweet corn from the garden onto his plate. The Farmer made him ice cream. And the boys wore him down with jokes and dares to slip down their little backyard zipline and after we all laughed too hard and then held hands and prayed, we sent him to bed with promi...
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moreweekends are for seeing through the window
On Saturday, August 13 th, 2011May all your wanderings this weekend, kindest friends, look through the pane of what is into the quiet and sacred spaces only to see the beauty of the blossoms right there on the other side. :: :::: All is grace because of Christ alone, :: :: A Memory for the Weekend: Make a little Slip & Slide in the backyard? As the summer winds down, a...
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morewhen somedays seem like a struggle…
On Friday, August 12 th, 2011It was right up there, after the woman in the buggy turned a corner. After she turned a corner and passed the humility of wheat, the sheaves bowed and surrendered. After she took one long breath and released her grip and let the reins lie loose across her open palm. After she’d just decided that, wherever this road l...
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