Love leaves beauty behind.
When the time came for my friend (who stayed with us following her spine surgery) to go back to her home, in the shuffle of loading everything in the car, her get-well tulips were accidentally left behind. When…
Love is peaceable.
Love doesn’t leave prickles in your palms afterwards. I wrote yesterday about tidying up the raspberry vines. It was one of those rare sunny afternoons, so I was wandering around the backyard delighting in springtime joys. I hadn’t…
Love is teachable.
I was wandering the back yard on a rare sunny afternoon, delighting in springtime joys – when I wound up over at the berry garden. Oh, check it out ... the raspberries are coming back to life. Just…
Love covers.
A small patch of these mushrooms sprang up in the grass just out from the kitchen window. I have never seen mushrooms quite like this before. Immediately the passage in Psalm 91:1 came to mind: “He/she who dwells…
Love “lets go.”
On the island of Kauai are water irrigation canals which, in time past, were used for floating sugar cane from high up in the hills down to the lowlands where it could be processed and shipped abroad. When…
Love is “present.”
This morning God gave me a powerful online sermon which really struck home – from Luke 10:38-42. “As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her…
Love is collaborative.
We have all heard the saying: “It takes a village to raise a child.” So also, when it comes to loving others well - it also takes a “village.” As I loved and cared for my friend after…
Love puts its own “parachute” on first.
Mixed in amongst the comings and goings to the hospital, when my friend was having her complex spine surgery, I had a routine wellness checkup apt. for myself. It has been about 7 years since I’ve been to…
Love heals. Love mends.
It takes time to heal. It takes time to mend. * It also takes pain meds to heal & mend. Obviously. But it takes a lot more than just time and pain meds in order to heal &…
Love is joyful.
A good sense of humor goes a long way towards recovery. I think this is why God chose to pair me and my friend together as “travel buddies” for this portion of life’s journey. As we walked the…