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   The garden flowers are blooming now. Finally. 

The Wedding was beautiful. Lance and Kristine are happily married.If I had a computer,I would try to write something meaningful about preparation and expectation and creating a perfect wedding celebration. And about having three small baby girls in the family all at once. And about understanding life after life-changing events. And the hollow quiet within… Continue reading A Small Post

  We are blessed to have this secluded park-like place to visit, rest, and read. There Is nothing fancy here to sit on. The patio bricks are old. The surrounding concrete just sturdy and plain. But with green grass, new trees, big shade trees, flowers and a fire table we have a perfect oasis.   … Continue reading Our Oasis

 I found and ordered up the pictures from our family camping last summer. I plan to scrapbook the events of four days of camping into one whole scrapbook. Sparkling blue lake pictures, a red and white canoe, fishing paraphernalia, children and beach balls tumbling in and out of the lake, sandy toes, dirty faces, sticky marshmallow-y hands, bright… Continue reading Reflections Scribblings

 I found a quote today that went like this; You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better. -Anne Somebody. Something about this rang a bell with me and I copied it to the blackboard...for about five minutes. The more I… Continue reading Grace For Our Days

Learning to own what is mine: my messes, challenges, failures, and weaknesses has been helping me to pull away from blame and hopelessness. As long as it is someone else's fault when I am sad or have made a mistake I am paralyzed to help myself. Vision and forgiveness are also mine. So is the… Continue reading Owning What Is Mine

 We have been having happy early summer days. We spent Memorial Day at Lewi's with the Graber's who could be there. Mom had an "activity" planned for us, so said our invitation.It turned out to be a sorting through some of her storage to give it away to us or throw it away as suited… Continue reading Ordinary Days

    I witnessed something awesome (Yes, only God is awesome, but so is something He is in) and inspiring yesterday.  We belong to a tiny, country fellowship of believers. On a Sunday morning when the house is full we can maybe muster a count of fifty people.  We are small and sometimes we feel… Continue reading Living In Yes With the Team