Searching for a Balance

 "St. John's narrative of the Resurrection opens on the morning of the first day of the week. It is still dark - just the way it wa...

found on pinterest but if you find that hard to believe - here Happy Easter!

Good Friday  has some competition this year in the U.S. - it is two hundred and fifty years since Paul Revere took his famous ride up north ...

 My throat was scratchy on Wednesday, and then I felt warm yesterday, with everything that comes along with that. So I stayed home for the H...

 My brother mowed the lawn yesterday. I stepped outside in the morning to empty some trash, in time to hear a mockingbird giving his spring ...

 "We are in the great week now....The double melody of suffering and triumph which touched us so strongly yesterday is once more audibl...

I was thinking today of how quickly things turned against Jesus. On Palm Sunday, we commemorate his seemingly triumphal entry into Jerusalem...

 It's been more like mid-March: cold, and snow predicted three times this past week. Neighboring towns got it when we didn't - until...

  It often happens, while sitting at the table, the renaissance light of afternoons glows through the window to catch my attention.

It snowed while I was at work today; not much.  And that's why I hadn't put away my boots.

  But not too busy to apply the black eyeliner, I guess.

  Moses said, "Show me your glory, I pray." And he [God] said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclai...

  I forgot a book which belongs in this pile - Silence and Honey Cakes , written by Rowan Williams. I'm liking it WAY more than I expect...

 It rained all day, and everything is puddled. It was a winter rain, it couldn't be described as a spring shower, at all. But I used the...

 "It's worth reflecting on the idea that certain things and certain things only have been 'assigned to our brush', given us...

 Daisy knocked one of the kitchen curtains on the floor - There is one squirrel who isn't baffled by the - well, the squirrel baffle. Cl...

 and a very well-known one, for St. Patrick's Day. The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my h...

 "Down through the centuries and generations it has been seen that in suffering there is concealed a particular power that draws a pers...

 There were some cranberries in the freezer which I decided to use up, and looking through my pinterest recipes, I found a cranberry bread w...

"You 'flee' to the desert not to escape neighbors but to grasp more fully what the neighbor is - the way of life for you, to th...

"We were made for home, and one of the first commands God gave the people newly created in his image was simply to rule and subdue (ord...

 I keep saying the wind is howling, but it keeps howling. So, what else is there to say? It's absolutely pointless to plan any outside a...

 I slept with my window open last night. It didn't get below fifty, although the wind was forceful and there was rain. It actually got u...

 I saw this at the supermarket - Scottish oatmeal.  Can you see how finely ground it is? Not as fine as flour, but finer than any oats I eve...

 "Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in...

This morning I thought March was coming in like a lamb, but there are twenty-four hours in a day, and by mid-afternoon the wind was roaring,...

 “O Lord, as we travel through this day of our life, our strength is in you; in our hearts are the roads to our eternal destination, the pla...

 I've always wanted to make a cherry pie on George Washington's birthday. I cannot tell a lie - today I did it. 

 I cut out the front and back pieces for the skirt today; I have to think about the casing for the elastic - I'm not going to fold over ...

 We've seen a rabbit outside under the bird feeder, the past two nights, eating seed. The snow is crusty and hard, the days and nights a...

  I went into the spare room, and there was Annie on a dresser - that was a surprise. They stayed there, and I got my camera. I love this pi...