Lessons From an Overgrown Arbor
It’s mid-November, and with today’s warmer weather, I decided it was finally time to tackle the garden cleanup. While a few plants are still hanging on, most have shriveled and...
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Return to the Garden
After a stressful experience at the airport in Spain and having to wait an extra day to head home, choosing to watch The Secret Garden from 1993 for my in-flight...
Happiness That Doesn’t Depend on What Happens: The Joy of Cultivating God’s World
Spent the entire weekend working in the yard and developing the new garden. I am giddy as a child at Christmas with how it’s all coming together. It brings tears...
When in Doubt: Finding Hope in the Waiting
As a Christian, I frequently go to God in prayer in search of wisdom, provision, and for Him to act on my behalf. While I have seen God respond in...
Seeing is Believing
My mom recently had cataract surgery on both eyes. Before the surgery, her sight was extremely limiting her ability to properly assess things around her. Once she could see again...
With Gratitude…
It’s quite fashionable to attack the church these days, to point out its shortcomings, mock its values, or try to write it off as completely irrelevant to the Christian experience,...
