yesterday mist hung heavy and in the night became rain. when i walked out the door this morning, the porch, the steps, the sidewalk, the driveway and the entire front yard were covered with glistening golden leaves. my little black rabbit shed them like scales as we whirled away to work. all the trees were…
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the glitter is the gold
saturday was such a day of days. i don’t even know how to describe it properly … except that i was filled to the brim with joy and felt utterly alive. among other things i went on a garden tour that included private houses near ward parkway, one of the wealthier areas of kansas city.…
Read Moreit’s quite simple: do what is fair and just to your neighbor, be compassionate and loyal in your love, and don’t take yourself too seriously — take God seriously. micah 6:8, the message just a little election season reminder. to myself as much as to anyone.
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“Did you mark how naturally — as if he’d been born for it — the earth-born vermin entered the new life? How all his doubts became, in the twinkling of an eye, ridiculous? I know what the creature was saying to itself! ‘Yes. Of course. It always was like this. All horrors have followed the…
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such a beautiful view
such a beautiful view with a long way to fall i was afraid how it could hurt to leave the safety up above but if it doesn’t it’s not love — sean watkins, not sure i’m not exactly what you’d call a daring person. i dream a lot — big, sometimes elaborate dreams — but…
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rough poems
and the beauty behind is what you can’t see like the wind in the branches that talks for the tree or the motion that split the shore from the sea … what do you know? what can you see? what do you hear that’s invisible to me? what can you taste in the silence of…
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last night i was fretting over something — nothing new there. it was a situation i’d been a little short-tempered about, and then, BOOM! i got the answer i’d been waiting for. except that it came with an unexpected generosity that floored me. so i started fretting about how i didn’t deserve the kindness that…
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made lovely
“… for the church has no beauty but what the Bridegroom gives her; He does not find, but makes her, lovely.” — c.s. lewis “Now Chauntecleer the Ready did a most unready thing: He sat down and stared. “Perhaps if he had seen her while she walked among a flock of Hens, clucking and pouting,…
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my lent has been forty days a month and a week or so without the things i run to when i want to run away he spent 33 years away from the glories of heaven willing to be confined in flesh limited for the sake of love he was human, as i am human but…
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i stepped outside tonight to drive home from a coffee house, and the sky was black and full of stars. the moon was shining bright and venus (or jupiter) was dazzling. i sighted orion and other friends in the heavens. and i thought, God walks among the stars. He knows the names of each and…
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