Sunset/Moonrise

Psalm 104:19 He made the moon to mark the season, and the sun knows when to go down. This coordination of the moon and the sun… It captures me. And I am reminded. The God who tells the sun when to set and has the moon ready at just the right moment is the same…

Sometimes I feel like a Sparrow

  Not even a sparrow, worth only half a penny, can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.” “Only a sparrow” I observe as I turn in disinterest from the bird feeder outside my kitchen window “Only a sparrow . . .” Did I really say those words? What was I thinking? Jesus tells…

Lessons from a Hammock

Sometimes we focus so much on our dreams we pay no attention to the present and the things we need to do and who we need to be to move toward our dreams.  Sometimes we get so lost in the present we forget there is ever was a dream and what we do and who…

THE PARKING LOT TREE

September 1, 2008 It’s supposed to be a quick run to Kmart to shop for a few things before leaving on a road trip. But when I come out to the car and turn the key, all I hear are a few clicks and then nothing! Likely a dead battery, probably because of a door…

I hear . . . .

I Hear . . . . . Birds singing Occasional cars driving by The sound of my husband turning the pages as he reads I sit on the deck in the shade He is just inside the door sitting in the sun After 42 years, some things never change. He’d freeze out here. I’d roast…

Back Yard Lessons on “Abiding”

John 15:5-8 (The Message) “I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. (the Message)…

My Creator King

experienced and written  and created in Fall 2006, while in TX for a Creative Memories Leadership Retreat in San Antonio. Hondo is about 60 miles west. One evening we went looking for a sunset and this was our reward.  It’s been almost a year since losing Gordon.