Lisa Jo is back with a new Five Minute Friday word prompt. Whole. For five minutes of unedited bleeding. GO! Pieces. It takes pieces to make a whole. Atoms and molecules and cells organize into organs and organ systems. Body parts make a whole body. God’s made us that way. To function as a part […]
Five Minutes with Still
Lisa Jo is taking her five minutes over at incourage today. Her challenge: Write for 5 minutes flat for pure unedited love of the written word on the prompt, “Still.” GO! I stop. Still. And wonder. Why does the breeze ripple the lake everywhere but in its center? Why is the center so still? So calm? So […]
I’m Done, I’m Full
We are on the road again. Back “up north” to pick up my son’s car while he works. It took ten days and more than half that in dollars to fix the damage. He ran into the back of someone in bumper-to-bumper traffic on his honeymoon. So we decided to grab a little alone time. […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Wedding Plans
We pick our way over the rocks and down the dune to the beach. Is this the right spot? We’re at the first bend on the way to Ludington State Park. Those are the only directions we have to the site of my son’s 4th of July wedding. How will the bride and the other […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Random Empty Thoughts (refurbished repost)
Are you running on empty? Exhausted? Then slow down. Dump excess weight. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ~Matthew 11:28 (NIV) Are you hungry? Then eat. But eat to live. And live to eat. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Coming Clean
“We have a problem.” I hate those words. The problem first showed itself in my husband’s basement office, which adjoins the “water softener room.” Which was swimming. But that wasn’t the origin. It came from the room that adjoins the water softener room–the “furnace room.” It’s not really the furnace room. Only the fuel oil […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Seeing the Country Sights
The farmers still can’t plant. The earth struggles to swallow all the sky continues to deliver. And I think how sometimes it seems to take forever for me to soak up all that God pours in before I notice any kind of growth. The air hangs heavy with the scent of lilacs. I can’t walk […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Laughing at the Fire
Fire! Across the road. The big house. Our house. Well, not really “our” house. But a piece of our history. My husband’s great-great grandfather built it in 1870. Read more. I’ve dusted off this story from the archives, and I’m guest posting today over at Jewels of Encouragement. Follow me there to read the […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Just Stop!
I don’t know what it is. But it’s awash in flowers. And fragrance oh so sweet. I want to bundle the branches to my nose. Except for the buzzing. The tree is bee heaven. All kinds. I stand under the pink canopy for a full 30 minutes. Trying to capture a bumblebee. Through my lens, […]
Fuel for the Weekend: I Thirst
They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out. ~Isaiah 48:21 (NIV) I thirst. I don’t know if the words shook me awake a couple weeks ago or if they waited on my headboard to pierce […]
