Opening Love and other Green Vegetables

My childhood home. Wisdom takes a seat with littlest one. Anticipating with wide eyes the stack before her. Natures delight waiting to do more than hang on limbs.  Exploding with color to the taste buds they cry. And the two sit at ancestors table. The one I hid peas under when I was so little….rebellious. Yet, […]

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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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Falling into His Pool of Grace

Popcorn spills all over the floor. Not waking up to a clean house…or a quiet, calm house.  But, this morning. Popcorn.  And young feet pattering…..looking…..searching through treats left out by teenagers the night before. And I implore….  “Pick up the popcorn….  When we make messes, our job is to clean them up.” And little hands innocently […]

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Attacked by Earthly Pleasures

There it was.  On a table. Party platter. People gathered. Luring.  Tempting me. Questioning the authenticity of recent allergies.  Peanuts.  Soy.  Now seafood. Healthy all my life. Never broke a bone.  Hardly had a cold.  Bodies. Only human. Can endure only so much. And although I am set free….I know….consequences of life styles always catch up. […]

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