Category Archives: Relationships

Fencing the Horse Pasture

The man who works with me
is not here because of pay or promise
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A Quiet Faith

We will all, in whatever ways and with whatever responses, further experience the gleanings and meanings of this life we are given. Some carried in the soft breathing of loved ones’ sleeping and others in the prayers of early hours.
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Come On In

Our friend, Jesus, is no less eager to receive us as his guests. No matter how late it is. Continue reading

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Close Proximity

It just might be that the second best place in the world to start doing good is right down the street. The best place is right next door. Continue reading

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Travel Troubles

He’d planned to spend the evening with friends, not in desperate search for a tow truck and a mechanic who might somehow consider spending his weekend rebuilding a transmission. Continue reading

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Still Taking Chances

We ought, I think, embrace the risk of loving rather than choosing the safe loneliness of insulation. Continue reading

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Plan B

Most often, doing something is far more productive than lamenting the distance between what we had hoped for and the reality of our lives. Continue reading

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Home Place

It’s the years of living and belonging, of knowing folks, of having shared some of the worst and best that life can send your way. Continue reading

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Time for Pruning

It is often easy to make the wrong snip, to take away what could have soon been lovely. Continue reading

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Enjoying the Garden

We sat in the slight darkness on the sun porch, eating our toast and eggs, watching hummingbirds dispute access privileges at the sugar water dispenser near the bee balm and butterfly bush.
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