Ruts Across the Soul
People are emotionally unwell right now. I went to the bank this week, and as usual the workers were understaffed and the line was long. As I entered the door and observed the long line stretching almost to…
Lessons in the Dirt – Always Face the Son
It’s interesting to notice how sunflowers always face the sun … even on cloudy days, even when it's raining with raindrops dripping from the petals, they always face the sun. Always. Every time I look out my window…
Lessons in the Dirt – Night is Coming
It is almost October, and time to bring the tomato harvest inside … even though they’re all still green. I stepped outside to do this just as night was falling. And as I was picking green tomatoes in…
Lessons in the Dirt – Twists along the way
How encouraging it is that God is so very KIND to us! How encouraging it is that God does not abandon us in our weakness or our failures. But rather, God picks us up, holds onto us, and…
Lessons in the Dirt – Patience
We have been looking at the Fruit of the Spirit Patience this past week. It occurred to me that God has created us all with different and varying degrees of patience … for His specific purposes for us.…
Lessons in the Dirt – Cracking
Our tomatoes are cracking. Google has answers for mysteries such as this … and evidently, according to Google, the inside of the tomato is growing faster than the outside of the tomato. Well, that was no surprise. That…
Bearing Kingdom Fruit – Different Stages
In looking at our background photo, this is what bearing Kingdom Fruit looks like … some fruit is ripe & ready for harvest; some fruit is still red but beginning to turn ripe; some fruit is in the…
Bearing Kingdom Fruit – Windows of Opportunity
The third week of July, these plums were hanging heavy on the tree … ripe and ready for harvest. But what if the third week of July isn’t convenient for harvesting the plums? What if there are too…
Bearing Kingdom Fruit – It’s Not What It Appears
From a distance, these growing tomatoes look fabulous and healthy. From up above, these growing tomatoes look fabulous and healthy. But once you get down below … where no one sees … it is clear that these growing…
Bearing Kingdom Fruit – Tiny Little Mites
Sin starts out small … like a tiny little mite on a mint leaf. It’s so tiny we don’t even notice it. But sin doesn’t stay small. It multiplies. It grows. Before we know it, the sin in…