A Loving Gardener Prunes

The way you prune manages the plant’s growth. If you want it to produce more fruit, there is a way to do that. If you want the plant to be more full, there’s a way to do that.

Ascension Day, 2025

“Men of Galilee, why are you standing here staring at the sky? Jesus has been taken away from you into heaven. And someday, just as you saw him go, he will return!”

Lest We Forget

Washington wrote a letter to his family, telling them that when he got undressed, he found four bullet holes in his shirt. He said, “By the all powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation.”

It’s Time to Plant

There is power in planting a seed and watching it grow!

Our Little Black Hen–Why, God?

Nothing had changed, but I was suddenly struck by the connection I felt with this chicken, whom I had never gotten around to naming.

Wildflowers!

One thing all of these flowers and the butterfly have in common is that they “catch the light.” Their beauty is made complete by the way they reflect. God designed each of these beautiful things, not just to be beautiful, but to have specific uses beyond their beauty, too.

Cherry blossoms!

The cherry blossoms are open! “For lo, the winter is past, and the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come. . .”