“If we are going to live appropriately in the creation we must keep the Sabbath. We must stop running around long enough to see what he has done and is doing. We must shut up long enough to hear what he has said and is saying. All our ancestors agree that without silence and […]
scripture sunday: my soul pants
By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me–a prayer to the God of my life. ~Psalm 42:8 (NIV) Still thirsty, Sandy With Deidra
I will give you rest
It rests between the large jars of cinnamon and parsley, peeks at me from behind the glass restaurant-style sugar dispenser. Sissy gave it to me, this duckie tea infuser. I take it out, hold it in my palm, stroke it. I squeeze my eyes tight and think back to that day in the dollar store […]
When We See the Deer
The deer, they tell us, come right up to the windows. My parents did, after all, build and operate the Deerland Motel. Deer have always been a part of our lives in some form. So we move Mom into the room with the view. I see a doe the next day, hidden way back […]
Saturday Snaps: Cartwheels of Joy
They frolic out in the field, the three of them with their mamas. Picking their way through soybean sprouts. Camouflaged in corn stalks. The mamas are alert, protective. Dennis says the tree line is close to half a mile from me, and yet the mamas seem to hear and see me. They’re prepared to rush […]
Saturday Snaps: Dear Deer
White-tailed deer are the smallest of the three members of the deer family found in Michigan, the others being elk and moose. Their size ranges between 125 to 225 pounds, although really healthy bucks may be even larger. Their coat is a reddish-brown color in the summer, but becomes much more gray in the winter. […]
