The Wedding Day
The story of my wedding day begins where so many other stories in my life have begun--in the red brick house on a farm in out-back Juniata County where I…
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September 22, 2021
Sunshiny with a few showers and moonlit, moose-free nights…
It is Sunday morning. The house is quiet, the day soft, gray and misty. The fan hums, blowing cool air in from outside. I sit on soft pillows on our…
August 24, 2021
Kaleidoscope Summer
“I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory…
June 11, 2021
In Spirit and In Truth
The first Christmas didn’t actually happen in Juniata County, and it wasn’t white. This thought just dawned on me a few minutes ago as I watched the sunset behind the…
November 28, 2020
How Beautiful
Last week, one night, I lay in bed, in exhaustion, and listened with my eyes closed to the song "How Beautiful", by Twila Paris. How beautiful the hands that served…
November 13, 2020
Homesick
Home is where there are no mixed expectations, only the fulfillment of all that your heart knows to be there… Home is where the people smile and frown only when…
October 26, 2020
The Journey Between the Old and the New
Right now I have few words--just a stillness as I arise into the sunset, above the tinted pink clouds… I have come though a rapid night and a rapid day.…
September 18, 2020
Never Again
I searched frantically for a place to pull over, finally drawing my car into a church parking lot. I went up the hill, up into the graveyard, and perched on…
July 28, 2020
Daughter of June
Ah, the glory of June…. I sit here by my open window, a glass of sparkling pink grape-fruit juice catching and holding the light of the sun beside me. The…
June 8, 2020
Dust at Jesus’ Feet
The other day while I was out in the field bumping along on a tractor with the wind in my face and the scent of cut grass tickling my nose,…
May 17, 2020