My husband has business in Marquette, Michigan, so we’re stretching the week into a mini vacation. One of those hurry-up-and-have fun times. Making memories with the grandgirl. We’re on Mackinac Island. Gracee doesn’t remember her first visit. She rode on Papa’s back then. So everything for her is a new memory. From the ferry ride […]
Monday Meditation: To Wallow in the Glory
I doubt it was her first ice cream cone because she seemed to know what to do. But it was her first ice cream cone with us. One summer Sunday evening. A moment captured through the lens of love. Imprinted in memory and stamped on our hearts. A delicious dive into delight. We walked down […]
Monday Meditation: Do You Love Him? Really?
The sun hesitates to throw off its covers this morning. The sunflowers topple as they die. A goldfinch digs for breakfast. A blue jay settles on the bath for a drink (he drinks fast and flees), and a ruby throat hovers near the feeder. I love silent mornings as I go about my duties. The […]
Monday Meditation: Crazy Love in Northern Michigan
We are “up north” again. We’ve come to pick up my son’s car, left here since his honeymoon when he crashed it. (I still plan to post some wedding pictures. Here’s a peek.) We’ve decided to make a weekend out of it. Friday Night Live has taken over Front Street in Traverse City, and […]
Monday Meditation: Green Like Worship–A Poem
Green like worship summer dreams swim in rippled cloud ponds. Fern fronds bow and stately trunks stretch skyward. Arms reach for heaven hushed by monarch majesty and ancient words carved in dusty walls by shanty boy ghosts seated on log pews. Hymns echo through pine-carpeted cathedral and the sacred pours into lemonade lakes. […]
Monday Meditation: Bitter Turned to Beauty
The pot brewed bitter. Hurt and anger bubbled. Until the mixture burst its bounds. Words popped, veiled in humor. But cork screwed heart hole, burrowed deep. And I could not retrieve it. Though I tried at once, the one who bears the wound preferred to embrace it a little longer. And would not speak the […]
Monday Meditation: Love Dripped and Joy Stained
I did not plan to attend. But this morning He slipped me a free ticket. A front row seat to a royal performance. One splashed with lavish colors and stroked with holy brush. Love dripped and joy stained. I hold my breath as the curtain rises on a white-spattered Crayola-sapphire backdrop. As the light comes […]
Monday Meditation: I Almost Missed It
I almost missed it. Nose in Bible. Pen in journal. But I looked up. Out into the field. And watched a male turkey try to gain the attention of several females. Who paid him no mind. He fluffed. He fanned. He followed. Back and forth. The caboose on the train. The shovel in the parade. […]
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 […]
Monday Meditation: A Fresh Start
Spring will come. I know this. I feel this. I see it in red crescents on black wings. And in waking earth as it stretches from under white quilt. I hear it in melting tears. A new season is on its way. A fresh start. But time suspends itself this morning in frozen filigree that […]
