“Find rest O my soul in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.” Psalms 62:5,6 This week, I invited two friends my age over for a visit. We have much in common…we are middle-aged women with adult children, and...
‘Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone. All her lovely companions are faded and gone, no flower of her kindred, no rosebud is nigh, reflect back her blushes and give sigh for sigh. I’ll not leave thee, thou alone one, to pine on the stem, since the lovely are sleeping, go sleep now...
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from summer cottons into winter wools.” -Henry Beston I snapped a series of photos yesterday as we went for a drive. This is one of my favorite views of the farms on the way to a lake we often visit. The peace, the...
“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you’d just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot...
“No one who ever said to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and meant it with his heart, ever failed to find joy-not just in heaven, or even down the road in the future in this world, but in this world at that very moment. Every other Christian who has ever lived has found exactly the...
