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How Thoroughly God Gives Life!
In 2020, while a child grew in me, I returned to the thing I had loved to do as a child. Writing poetry. And I wrote the years down. Infertility. My silent screaming. God’s history of love to me. My grief. The garden. The starkness of the bathroom floor. The healing. The escape from the… Continue reading
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I’m Going to Be Here Too
Garden Lullaby, April 15, 2020 SO VERY WOW!! I love that flowers have taught me how to anticipate life. It’s exciting to see the buds and watch them slowly expand. And it’s thrilling to look and suddenly see a flower in all its glory! I would go so far as to say it’s the 8th… Continue reading
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Picture of Life in a Broken, Grieving Woman
Garden Lullaby, April 3, 2020 WE FINALLY HAVE A GARDEN! The tiny porch garden spread to the side of the house then spilled farther over into a rose bed which gave way to a vegetable raised bed which needed a flower bed for company and a fairy garden to boot and a patched together gate… Continue reading
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Our First (Hilarious) Garden Box
Garden Lullaby, March 26, 2020 I have not laughed so hard or long in awhile! My chest began to ache! For Christmas, my husband bought me “Raised-Bed Gardening for Beginners.” Well, we proved there needed to be a prequel. Ben’s idea of “let’s look at the book” meant flipping quickly through the pages for less… Continue reading
