Devotion
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Bondslave
I’ve been looking over my old blog (Windscraps) and noticed that a few are disappearing. Who knows how these things happen? Before they all disappear, I think I’ll move a few here to save. This one is a snapshot of life back on January 3, 2005. I had big plans for today. With Christmas vacation over, the kids would be going back to school, and I intended to put Phil Keaggy’s “Beyond Nature” in the CD player, pour myself an extra-large mug of hazelnut-laced coffee and work until noon on my second book. Plans change. My daughter woke with the flu; she’s lying now on the couch with her pillow…
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Chick Wisdom
She came out of the woods one day and sauntered around the corner of the house with four unexpected fluff balls in tow. She’d never let on that she had a nest out there. She’d been holding out–and this day was show-and-tell. If ever a hen exuded pride, she was it. She had a right to that pride. Those chicks are perfect little hen-lets. Teensy eyes, stick-figure legs, miniature bodies so downy-light, the yellow seems to hover about them like an aura. That first day, they followed her across the sea of gray concrete with their tiny hearts beating madly in their mini chests. Where was she taking them?…
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One
My life is filled with numbers. I wake in the morning and walk to the kitchen, where I tackle those glasses of water. Three now, two before lunch, four more between lunch and dinner. That will make ninety ounces. Midway through that first glass, I remember how much I don’t like the taste of water in the morning. Strap on the pedometer. The goal is 10,000 steps by sundown. Toward that end, if the weather permits, I will find a space in this day’s madness to trot down the front porch stairs, down the driveway, turn right, and walk to Getchell Road. That will take 45 minutes and carve 5,600…
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Books!
Quick, quick, quick post … because I’m at church in between services. Happy Sunday, btw. 🙂 First, I want to tell you about the recent release of Wisdom For Women, the first book of my sweet friend, Debbi Bryson. I’ve known it was coming for a while, but it wasn’t until I opened my copy yesterday and started reading that I discovered it is a companion to The One-Year Bible. Debbi’s devotionals correspond each day to the section of Proverbs that you’re reading in that program. I already love the book, and I know you will too. One of the things I’ve always so appreciated about Debbi’s teaching is that…
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Whiplash, Macaroons, and The Sacred Romance
We’re leaving Tahoe in the morning and heading to the Oregon Coast. I can hardly believe I get to be in both places on the same trip. Here’s a memory from another visit. I’ll be sitting on that same bench soon. How’s that for a post title? Sometimes, when you’re about to embark on an explanation of a lot of disconnected information, you have to state the obvious. So there you go. Last Thursday, while minding my own business, I was involved in a car accident up on Hwy 9. (For those of you who don’t live in the Puget Sound area, let me just say that Hwy 9 is…
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Spiced Pumpkin Bars
I had written all but the recipe by Sunday night, but then Monday and Tuesday we were down at the Pacific Northwest Pastors Conference all day, and this morning, I taught a writing class at the Bible College at Calvary Fellowship. I couldn’t get back to it until now. So just tell yourself it’s still Sunday when you read “this morning” and “today.” 😀 What a perfectly wonderful Sunday we had! It was flawless in every way. First of all, I came flying over the last hill on my way to church this morning and saw that the cornfields below our property were shrouded in a misty fog, which is…
