Sounds of the mourning dove. Mourning is not forgetting… It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. ~Margery Allingham Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. ~William Wordsworth Snuggle in God’s arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, […]
Saturday Snaps: Rockin’ Robin
Sounds of the American Robin. The robin red breast was designated as the state bird of Michigan by House Concurrent Resolution No. 30, the Senate concurring, on April 8, 1931. The resolution read, in part: “WHEREAS, A widely and generally conducted contest to choose a State bird, carried on by the Michigan Audubon […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: God Blazes!
Sunrise The God of gods—it’s God!—speaks out, shouts, “Earth!” welcomes the sun in the east, farewells the disappearing sun in the west. From the dazzle of Zion, God blazes into view. Our God makes his entrance, he’s not shy in his coming. Starbursts of fireworks precede him. Psalm 50:1-3 (Message) Sunset May you be […]
Saturday Snaps: I See!
One thing I do know I was blind but now I see! John 9:25 (NIV) Saturday blessings, In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. ~Blaise Pascal
Window on Writing: Looking into the Light
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.~Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr. We’ve been staring at the sun over at The High Calling. Trying to capture lens flare […]
Saturday Snaps: Jay Walking
Sounds of the Blue Jay (Watch your cat’s response when you play this!) Blue jays eat mostly acorns, nuts, and seeds–though they also eat caterpillars, grasshoppers, and beetles. Per National Geographic, they sometimes store acorns in the ground and fail to retrieve them, thus aiding in the spread of forests. There are no […]
Monday Meditation: In the Being
I settle myself on the porch step with tea steaming. It’s cold, but snow continues to recede under determined sun. Chortles and trills and tweets and squawks and caws and peeps fill the air. Two geese honk and circle before they land on the pond. Stuff to be done stuffs my brain. But still I […]
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. […]
Textures of Text: Because He Lives
I sat on the choir platform, and my eyes floated in pools as we sang. Because He lives, I can face tomorrow, Because He lives, all fear is gone; Because I know He holds the future, And life is worth the living, Just because He lives! It was our last Sunday in this church. The […]
Saturday Snaps: Feeding Frenzy
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. ~1 Peter 5:8 (NIV) Note: Wondering if this fat cat had anything to do with the pile of female cardinal feathers we found under the tree. We don’t know who he belongs to, and […]
