The scratchpads are full maybe over running It's Monday morning and it's not gonna work! Too much to do! Too many places to be! How is this gonna play out? Thank the Lord for the gift of life and opportunity energy and health and thinking ability Two steps back think prioritize write it down [...]
Pre dawn cool and dampness came to a head this morning Fog wrapped around the farm settling like a cumulous cloud on us Eerie kind of feeling walking out to work trucks and trains a half mile away sounded oh so close Even the birds were hushed from their usual sun up chatter The air [...]
Times and words do change people change with them Take a walk down merrily lane with me Pull up your mind's eye to picture a wooded valley stream dancing through it sparkling water, happy place a bonny bonny day I see some lovely pastures some slowly grazing cows I hear them call, and answer back [...]
Sunshine and snow after the blow are so very welcome The brightness is high sunglasses a blessing oh how the world glistens! Rain changed to snow ice freezing on trees silently enduring the burden then came the wind laced with snowflakes round and round it blew All night the moaning whistling of wind roads [...]
The Japanese Maple long a favorite nestles just outside my door The frosty nights and sunny days have spurred the richest color Red Not just any but one that cries out "Life!" Electric! Once a medic half century a farmer I've seen the color before On others, injured, on me, minor cuts The brightest red [...]
Picture a handful of men heads together listening intently sifting and sorting bringing to bear life experience, commitment Commitment to the Lord Savior, Immanuel commitment to serve together, they pondered they prayed People with problems hurting, needing help mundane things like money making things work important things like structures whose in charge, what's the plan [...]
So like the Creator to color so richly! Splash the palette! Throw it at the earth! Look at what's happened! Grass as fresh as springtime green and growing and loving the cool, the wet Tree trunks blackened with rain India inked and clinging leaves But some, get this, some with colors defying Gold and yellow [...]
Our pool sits abandoned it's called 'global warming' No matter we set records for cold and cold again No matter we're wearing coats in mid July in Illinois Hold fast we must to the notions above What are we thinking or are we thinking at all? Have patience, we urge don't jump from the ship [...]
What did I see just the other night when the wind did blow and howl? First I heard the tympani roll louder and louder they pounded and boomed Then flashes of light zipped and zapped sizzling whatever they touched Then a big drop splashed then two then more and more and more All at once [...]
Life brings precious gifts for which there are no price tags One of them is, surely, 'clicking', with another person Happened to me last week, far from the farm and home On the shore of Puget Sound I sat down next to a fellow He was well groomed and poised Might say, “Comfortable in his [...]