Love is peaceable.

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…
April 5, 2025Posted inLessons in the Dirt, What is love?
Love is teachable.

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…
April 4, 2025Posted inLessons in the Dirt, What is love?
Love covers.

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…
April 3, 2025Posted inLessons in the Dirt, What is love?
Love “lets go.”

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…
April 2, 2025Posted inWhat is love?
Love is “present.”

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…
April 1, 2025Posted inWhat is love?
Love is collaborative. 

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…
March 31, 2025Posted inWhat is love?
Love heals. Love mends.

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 &…
March 29, 2025Posted inWhat is love?
Love is joyful.

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…
March 28, 2025Posted inWhat is love?
Love is stable!

Love is stable!

After my friend’s spine surgery, her walker became her stability.   Her walker empowered her to function in life like normal.   Her walker was her “freedom.”    If she wanted to get up out of bed and move to the…
March 27, 2025Posted inWhat is love?