One Little Word – trading Good for Grace

The World in a Dewdrop

February 2, 2020 One Little Word No Comments

My eye caught it before my mind saw it. My body had moved passed it. I moved back. A single hanging dewdrop. Something about it stopped me. The boldness of its holding on. Defying the day’s sun starting to dry the neighboring berries. Reversing the gravity drawing it back…

Lifting

January 1, 2018 One Little Word No Comments

Sometimes a fog rolls in heavy. All at once with an overnight blanketing of the landscape. Vision cut short without any warning. Other times, it’s boiling-a-frog style. Slowly increasing morning by morning without enough difference from one layer to the next to cause any great alarm. Until one day, it’s…

When Spring Comes Reluctantly

March 24, 2016 #BraveEveryDay #SmallWonders Authenticity Beauty Hunter's Guide to the Galaxy Courage Grace hope In Every Season One Little Word 3 Comments

I’ve been working against a deadline. On Monday I will have completed another year of life. 42 of them so far. Another circle around the sun. Another cycle of life. Another end. Another beginning. It has not been lost on me that the day falls immediately after Easter this…

for the promise of sweet breezes

March 6, 2016 #SmallWonders Courage Dwell Fullness Grace hope In Every Season One Little Word 2 Comments

I fight the survivor instinct that tells me to revive. There is a time to die. My four decades of doing things my way have brought me no closer to the prize – to the wideness of grace, to the deep well of peace, to the loftiness of lightness in…

For when the words write themselves. On me.

May 10, 2015 #SmallWonders God Spottings Grace Gratitude hope In Every Season One Little Word 9 Comments

“I go to prepare a place,” He said. Sometimes that place is within driving distance. A quiet retreat center near Omaha, in this case. The drive a three-day journey. Each mile a wearing down of the callouses that had grown around me. Each passing exit an invitation to lay down another layer. The…

trading Good for Grace

Category: One Little Word

The World in a Dewdrop

Lifting

When Spring Comes Reluctantly

for the promise of sweet breezes

For when the words write themselves. On me.

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