The Joy of the Lord is Your Strength (Part Three–Enter His Courts With Praise!)

There is so much to be thankful for if we just look around with eyes that aren’t darkened by despair, and instead are lightened by hope!

The Joy of the Lord is Your Strength (Part Two–Correcting My Focus)

We cannot save ourselves from anything. Our own efforts are futile, like a dirty hand trying to wash the dirt from another dirty hand.

Adventures in Beekeeping

“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is also unjust in much.” Luke 16:10

Fire In The Snow

Someone was burning outside, and the contrast of that glorious light to the gray sky hit my eye like an electric spark, a shock, a resonant vibration.

My Heart Longs For Little Things

Today I was thinking, as I looked out at this beautiful late-winter day, about how many of the things I care about are so small. I mean literally tiny. We were riding in the car, and a box elder bug crawled on my dad’s window. He put his big boxy finger close to it asContinue reading “My Heart Longs For Little Things”