Hope of Spring Creation’s writing love notes, inking jeweled lines on blue parchment and punctuating with a kiss of red. Snow dust spills in sunlight like makeup glitter, and life’s being conceived under a white sheet– hope of spring. Word count: 36 A repost In the stillness, Sandy
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 14
First Day of Spring Day cracks its shell, spills golden yolk. Behold a robin– first day of spring Word Count: 14 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. In the stillness, Sandy I realized this morning that this is my 67th first day of spring. Yikes! “I enjoy the spring […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 36
Creation’s writing love notes, inking jeweled lines on blue parchment and punctuating with a kiss of red. Snow dust spills in sunlight like makeup glitter, and life’s being conceived under a white sheet… hope of spring. Word count: 36 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here In the stillness, […]
Making Manifest: Your Days Are Waiting
Your days are waiting to be left behind. So now, before sleep or waking make you forget, etch in yourself this moon, this leaf, this star. ~ from “Your Days Are Waiting” by Dave Harrity Tomorrow is the day. The day we begin our 28-day devotional journey through Making Manifest: On Faith, Creativity, […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 35
The “one thing” each of us finds hardest to give up may be the single most significant sign to lead us to an entry door to our communion with God, if we could only recognize the importance of that choice. ~ Luci Shaw in Water my Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life Word Count: 40 Today’s […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 17
Yesterday I passed a saucy tree dressing up for primavera, a red breast tucked within its arms, a woodchuck hidden in its skirt. I teased tangled hair of dog and savored a chocolate-dipped cone, a first-day gift from Dairy Queen. Word Count: 40 Today’s Reading: John 6-9 In the stillness, Sandy
40 Words of Lent: Day 15
Winter’s worn out, and it’s melting into dirty banks and muddy waves, leaving browned tree skirts and revealing what’s been broken. Our world is puddled from the weight of it. I’ve learned: When life gets messy, spring’s on its way. Word Count: 40 Today’s Reading: Luke 20-24 In the stillness, Sandy Linking […]
a lake and an artist date
I slow down as I turn the corner and scan Lake Abby. Something dark floats at the far end. Not a goose. Maybe a mallard. But I can’t be sure. It looks black. I smash forefoot to floor, fly down asphalt, jerk wheel to left, spin gravel in drive, and ram gear into park. When […]
scripture sunday: two are better than one
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. ~Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) Stilled times two, Sandy
the finger of God
I see God’s creative finger in all seasons. But never more, I think, than in the spring when life unfurls. These are the days when all that glitters is green. Yet life is sometimes blood-tinged like the color of death in this new leaf. That also carries the color of hope. Because life is in […]
