Daily Blessing

Footprints Across the Soul – Blooms!

This beautiful, variegated rose is “footprints across my soul” … precious memories of dear friends, and the wonderful times we have had together! Our friends brought this small rose over to us as a gift one evening, when…

July 20, 2022Lessons in the Dirt

Psalm 145:20

"The LORD watches over all who love Him." - Psalm 145:20

July 20, 2022What is God like?

Cracks in the mind

We have lots of Big Leaf Maple trees in our forest. Big Leaf Maple trees are aggressive! Big Leaf Maple stumps refuse to die ... continuing to prolifically send out new shoots year after year! Big Leaf Maples…

July 19, 2022Lessons from the forest

Psalm 145:18-19

"The LORD is near to all who call on Him ... He hears their cry and saves them." - Psalm 145:18-19

July 19, 2022What is God like?

On the shelf

This past February I came across this wonderful set of garden pruners and shears at Costco. We could most certainly use those! The blackberry briars, sticker bushes, and Big Leaf Maple shoots are aggressively trying to overrun the…

July 18, 2022Lessons in the Dirt

Psalm 145:14

"The LORD upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down." - Psalm 145:14

July 18, 2022What is God like?

Stir up the gift

Alas, I have come to the end of the jar of peanut butter. This means the opening of a new jar of peanut butter … and the resulting effort required to stir the layer of oil (which has…

July 17, 2022Life Lessons

Psalm 145:13

"The LORD is faithful to all His promises and loving toward all He has made." - Psalm 145:13

July 17, 2022What is God like?

Reaching!

As I was walking past the living room, I noticed the clerodendrum (tropical bleeding heart) had grown off its support post … and was reaching still further. Immediately the verse popped into my mind: “Forgetting what is behind…

July 16, 2022Lessons in the Dirt

Psalm 143:10

"Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; may Your good Spirit lead me on level ground." - Psalm 143:10

July 16, 2022Verse Art