It’s magical when feral cats show up at the farm. We bless them because we’ve had rats so fat and tame I could grab one as she ran up the…
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Once, when I was walking in the Belvidere Park, I stopped to chat with a woman. She suggested instead of writing down the hard things, why don’t I write down…
“I love you Jesus.” I thought with a gush of emotion. I don’t always feel this in my heart. I’ve not said it much, though my spiritual companion closes her…
“Do you want to be healed?” he asked. He smelled like cinnamon and pepper and cut through our stink, all of us unwashed, honey pots next to us. Yes, his…
Recently I went to Alan’s celebration of life and wish I’d spoken. I did not know him as a proud horse show dad, watching his daughter ride her pony over…
We stand still. The water cupping the sunlight in the sea hurt our eyes. We’d seen the miracles in Egypt–the bloody water, the giant hail, the locusts, the darkness. We…
On New Year’s day, I walked into a cloud that settled on the neighbor’s field, now cleared of corn. I could not gaze to the silver grain bins, like unlabeled…
It was last minute, but we decided to help someone from church move from a condo to a tiny apartment in an assisted living facility so she could be near…
I thought you could use something to cheer you up after this hard American week. So here’s a photo essay. Sometimes a feather lands in a bucket And sometimes it…