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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…

forty-one candles (#smallwonder)

March 30, 2015 #SmallWonders God Spottings Grace In Every Season One Thousand Gifts Renewal 5 Comments

I thought by now… is a dangerous game to play Especially on a birthday morn It beckons I do not bite For all the well wishes and awaiting adventures I do not have time for such silliness Instead I watch the bay Its ripples ever towards me Wave on wave…

Coiled springs and Blooming trees

March 15, 2015 #SmallWonders 18 Comments

The Bradford Pears are blooming. The trees, that is. It happened overnight. Literally. Invisible buds on Friday. Delicate white blossoms on Saturday. In every yard. All. At. Once. As if God Himself came low to the ground and spoke into the anxious roots, breathed on the tiny buds a single…

trading Good for Grace

Category: #SmallWonders

When Spring Comes Reluctantly

for the promise of sweet breezes

For when the words write themselves. On me.

forty-one candles (#smallwonder)

Coiled springs and Blooming trees

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