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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Squirrelina

Squirrelina

I was sitting at the dining room table having lunch yesterday when there went Squirrelina up the siding and onto the roof!  I was pretty sure she was only eating seeds from off the roof, but a tiny worry…
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Sunday joys – coffee with my son!

Sunday joys – coffee with my son!

Hubby and I were headed to church bright and early Sunday morning when a text came in from our son:  “You want to get coffee after church?”   Absolutely!   Hubby and I had never been to Woods Coffee before,…
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Springtime joys!

Springtime joys!

It was a rare sunny afternoon, and I was out in the garden tidying up the raspberry vines, when I noticed a little garden snake sunning itself quietly and calmly in the glorious sunshine as well. The very…
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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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