Facing Trials: When Life Offers You Weeds

 When life offers you a field of weeds. Take what’s there.  And do like the feathered ones do.   Look for opportunity.   Because sometimes.  In the greenest, most fertilized settings. IS the blessing. …….Even if dandelions appear. So, don’t ignore those unwanted hindrances. Denying them.  Devour their presence. And let them nourish you.  To life.   To […]

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The Gift on 1 year Blog Anniversary.

I am not sure what woke me. Strolling closely to the double french doors staring from my canopy bed. Peering over the balcony rail.  Groggy. Foggy in my head. I spot them. Tendering walking.  Fluffy tails. Strolling as if the night before, they didn’t hear gun shots, or barking dogs, or lawn mowers eating tall blades […]

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Hiking Home

A chance to seize the day.  We strap on boots.  Take off on, Trail of Life. Not the easy road.Away from city.      Noise.           …Suffocating places that drown the voice of God. Head to wide open…..                Where He speaks through all creation. Even the trees beckon….                 As they reach with limbs of yearning. Calling through […]

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God Speaks

Driving past fields.  Farms.  Settlements well worn.  From pain staking, sweat earned….difficult years. Trying to clear head….                 Find rest from puzzles with sharp edges.                 And I recollect their beauty. …Any building still standing must have a strong foundation. And emotions surge.               As I grip all I have got.                           Fragments.                                    Pulled apart….And I ask…               Why is vision […]

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Barrenness

I sit under the wide open sky… And wonder…. How far, deep, and wide His love is. How the earth seems to breath underneath me. And how expensive comforters…. And  mattresses… And beds…. And houses…. Somehow seem to suffocate the breath of God around me….in me. And I ache for even more barrenness….  Where nothing matters….but […]

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