It’s been a long week. And so it’s midnight before I begin to stir chickpea flour into melted ghee, finely chop macadamia nuts and mix with coconut into peaked egg whites, form chocolate truffles and roll in chocolate sprinkles. While the rest of the house sleeps. Wash, mix, mold, bake, scrape, taste, lick. I’m making […]
Silence ~ In More Than 140 Characters
We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature–trees, flowers, grass–grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence . . . We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~Mother Teresa
From a Higher Source
Our geriatric kitty has cancer. We just found out yesterday when the vet called with the results of the biopsy. It’s in her sinuses and untreatable. Until yesterday I kept her confined to my office where I could observe what she ate (nothing but a few laps of milk unless I force fed her) and […]
Goodnight Moon
Today was one of those days when day runs into night, and you’re still running–and not sure if you’re coming or going. I spent a lot of the day looking through a windshield. And tonight, for a moment, day and night saluted at the changing of the guard in a pink-edged blue bowl. The sun […]
I’m Not Happy
I’m not happy with others. A lot of the the time. I’m not happy with their choices, the pain and disappointment they inflict on others and themselves. On me. I’m not happy with the world. A lot of the time. Because children starve and people suffer. Because the economy drowns in corruption and greed, and […]
Be a Sticky Star
Do you want your idea to stick? Then skip the statistics and the data and the graphs. Just the thought makes me squirm and yawn. Don’t tell me that one of every five little boys will do something creative with chocolate syrup. (I made up that statistic.) I might keep the syrup under lock and […]
Stripped
Stripped in season to lay a golden path that leads me home. Strip down, start running–and never quit! Hebrews 12:1c (Message)
It’s a Two-Cup Morning
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. ~Martin Luther News on the radio startles me awake. Dennis forgot to shut off the alarm. I don’t want to get up. My elbow hurts, and my back aches. I know that Friday’s supper dishes line the counter–along with […]
Glory ~ In More Than 140 Characters
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven. ~Harriet Tubman
Contemplating in the Yard
Looking is the beginning of seeing. ~Sister Corita Kent (from God in the Yard) I don’t know if L.L. took a camera to the yard. So far I don’t see that she said I couldn’t. I often take a tray to sit on wet grass or table. It holds my camera, binoculars, small Bible, God […]
