Glory Hunting
I wake to the the sun streaming on my side of our bed. A new day. My first thoughts? A prayer formed from words in Lamentations about hope in the midst of affliction. Oh God, because of Your great love we are not consumed, for your compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great […]
A FAREWELL FOR JO (AND THE HOPE FOR US ALL)
My dear friend Nancy, my neighbor, lost her sister Jo Monday night. 62 years old. Vibrant wife, mother, grandmother, sister, friend. Heart attack. Alive in the morning. Gone by night. There’s agony here around this farm, this Holy Week, as we march to Maundy Thursday, the day our Lord wept in a garden as he […]
When You’re Afraid Your Vacation Will Bite and What Really Makes Life Rich
So here I am, on vacation with my husband—sans kids—in Mexico. I’m grateful for some time away to relax. However, the sun I paid to see decided to take a hike during the exact same week! Just plain disappeared the day after we arrived and left us a thick blanket of cloud with some rain […]
When You Feel Like The Edges Of Your Life Are Crumbling And You Need Solid Anchors
I stood on the edge of a cliff wondering whether the rock would hold me if I ventured too far to the edge. From my high vantage point, I could see the vast array of autumn colors and the large lake down below—Devil’s Lake. I saw men and women with ropes anchored in rock, thrown […]
Into the Woods
I meander through conifer forest next to our home, whipped by white pine branches and pricked by wild rose stems. Trails cleared years ago for riding horses in summer and cross-country skiing in winter are now overgrown from lack of tending. Some paths are hardly visible. Others are too near eroded banks of the creek […]
Connection with God and Others
She opens a spiral notebook and shows me a cross she drew. I saw her pain on the page. Not like she fell apart or anything. No one would ever know. I’ve known her for a long time, but I’ve not really known her. It’s just that when one has been hurt so deeply for […]
You Reap More Than You Sow
Welcome to the Saturday gallery of glory! Today’s post is a tribute to a dear soul in my life. How can I label her? It’s difficult to find just the right words. I met her when she was 15, I think, while shopping at a local grocery store. Those who know my effusive personality know that […]
Beautiful for Life
What makes one beautiful at any age? I’ll tell you it isn’t creams or serums or injectables or clothes or jewelry or even good genes. Meet one of my best friends, a bit incognito . . . Still a beauty at 65, she’s ten years older than I, plus four days, this friend-gift of mine. […]