nature
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Spring Beauty: Embracing God’s Gifts Beyond Feelings
Life doesn’t always lend itself to enjoyment and there’s nothing wrong with seasons where you grit your teeth and get through it. This was a spring for getting through. And still it has been beautiful. The buttercups were plenteous, there was a late and glorious snow in April(!), the morning birdsong was notable, the butterflies… Continue reading
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Laughing in the Cold
March blusters in with buttercups below winter-bare trees. And perhaps, we don’t much admire this month which is neither warm nor cold, beautiful or ugly, simply because it unravels much like the way our heart feels most the time. We are both winter and spring, joyful and grieving, growing old and becoming young again. A… Continue reading
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Buttercups Dare Me to Believe It
I felt the tears well behind my eyes walking up to the four buttercup blooms. I first noticed the telltale yellow burst of a flower while in the middle of an ordinary task as I passed by our bedroom window. Soon after I would sit in the cool grass, hear the frogs and the birds,… Continue reading
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