fly

by | Jun 9, 2018 | Children, Dreams, Five Minute Friday, Journey, Summer

    “fly” is the right word for me this week as my eldest boarded a plane for the poorest country in the western hemisphere to spend a month working in a remote area on the top of a mountain a one hour drive up and down each day to the health...

Hope around the Hedges (Lenten Reflection)

by | Mar 11, 2018 | Devotions, God's Faithfulness, God's love, God's promises, God's Word, grace, Growth, Hope, Jesus, Learning, Lent, Lenten Meditation, Life, Poetry, poetry by others, Spring, Summer

  My life is not a neatly planted hedge of planned events; it is, rather, a messy string of occurrences which the Lord is using to graciously teach me what He wants me to know. Anything that has happened out of my control is still in the Lord’s hands and in His...

Summer’s Lease…

by | Sep 14, 2017 | Poetry, Quotes, Summer

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date…  —- Shakespeare, Sonnet 18           The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm     The house was quiet and the world was calm.     The reader became the book; and summer night    ...

From Seed to Giant

by | Sep 6, 2017 | Summer, Travel

  A tiny sequoia tree seed, above, can grow into a small young plant, like the one below.   That small plant can grow into a towering giant, like this one:   It isn’t the tallest tree (Redwoods are taller) but in terms of mass and volume, it is...

A Few Pictures of a National Park…

by | Aug 21, 2017 | Quotes, Summer

  Psalm 121 A song of ascents. 1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—     where does my help come from? 2 My help comes from the Lord,     the Maker of heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot slip—     he who watches over you will not slumber; 4 indeed, he...

Summer Reflection #6

by | Jul 24, 2017 | Summer

Here are a few recent pictures of summer. All of these photos were made with the iPhone.       When I moved into my first home many years ago, someone asked me if I liked gardening. I said no. Truthfully, I had no interest in it at all. I couldn’t...

Flowers – Quotes and Art

by | Jul 17, 2017 | Art, Painting, Quotes, Summer

    “I must have flowers, always, and always.” ― Claude Monet “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables   “Flowers always make people...