Love is a reflection of God.

Love is a reflection of God.

This evening my daughter will be having an informational meeting for an internship program she is setting up for high-school girls.    This internship is for the upcoming summer family camp, which is hosted at the property of my…
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Love leaves beauty behind.

Love leaves beauty behind.

When the time came for my friend (who stayed with us following her spine surgery) to go back to her home, in the shuffle of loading everything in the car, her get-well tulips were accidentally left behind.  When…
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Love is peaceable.

Love is peaceable.

Love doesn’t leave prickles in your palms afterwards.   I wrote yesterday about tidying up the raspberry vines.   It was one of those rare sunny afternoons, so I was wandering around the backyard delighting in springtime joys.   I hadn’t…
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Love is teachable.

Love is teachable.

I was wandering the back yard on a rare sunny afternoon, delighting in springtime joys  –  when I wound up over at the berry garden.   Oh, check it out ... the raspberries are coming back to life.   Just…
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Love covers.

Love covers.

A small patch of these mushrooms sprang up in the grass just out from the kitchen window.   I have never seen mushrooms quite like this before.   Immediately the passage in Psalm 91:1 came to mind:   “He/she who dwells…
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Love “lets go.”

Love “lets go.”

On the island of Kauai are water irrigation canals which, in time past, were used for floating sugar cane from high up in the hills down to the lowlands where it could be processed and shipped abroad.  When…
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Love is “present.”

Love is “present.”

This morning God gave me a powerful online sermon which really struck home – from Luke 10:38-42.   “As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her…
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Love is collaborative. 

Love is collaborative. 

We have all heard the saying:  “It takes a village to raise a child.”   So also, when it comes to loving others well - it also takes a “village.”   As I loved and cared for my friend after…
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