Searching for a Balance

"..faith is not some backwoods idea that we attach to our real experiences and bring along with us as our spiritual luggage; and that r...

I took this photo of the bean stalks over the weekend. It's really something to come out of the house and have this big, leafy thing on ...

I got the lace hem attached yesterday so I could wear it today - what could be better than a sleeveless linen dress in the heat? Anyw...

I took Dolly out this morning when the grass was full of dewdrops. I threw a quilt over the wet and we stayed outside for an hour - ...

"Humility is the refusal to exist outside God. It is the queen of virtues."                                                     ...

"The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes sp...

"God does not give his joy to us for ourselves alone, and if we could possess him for ourselves alone we would not possess him at all. ...

Today Mr. Kibble spent several hours in a grassy spot near the driveway at the end of a hedge. He looked extremely content, as I looked out ...

Sing to the Lord a joyful song: lift up your hearts, your voices raise. To us his gracious gifts belong: to him our songs of love and...

Mr. Kibble is a regular tenant now, it seems.

"What happens when we don't forgive? If someone did something wrong to me ten years ago, and I still don't want to forgive them...

I made another dress with my go-to pattern: a pull over the head a-line with short sleeves in a crisp quilting cotton, sort of a chartreuse ...

"Here is a country bearing a well-known name, wherein no chill mists press upon our spirits, and no rain falls but what rolls off our b...

I was folding laundry in the spare bedroom and I heard someone talking. Had my brother left his radio on? But I would have heard it before. ...

There's a flash flood watch for our area from about now, until eight on Sunday morning. Where do outdoor cats go to stay dry? After ...

I used to make iced tea like this - which is the usual way, I think, unless you use a mix. Boil the water, steep the tea, and chill. But ...

That's what we've been doing on this beautiful and very hot day. But now I'm putting on the AC.

Well, I left off last time where Diane had managed to get Mr. Kibble into her house. She later told me she was concerned that he wouldn'...

In spite of the extreme humidity we've been having, and knowing I could barely survive without the air conditioning, I am still glad for...

from Magnificat - "All of us are given a spiritual 'house' to build, to live in, and to hand on to future generations: what ...

Debra was leaving town and had too many peaches; they were all ripe and did I want some? Yes! After reminding my brother for the second ti...

I went to make ice cream the other day and poured a cup of milk into the blender, whereupon I saw a moth floating. Fortunately, I had more m...

"When we hold a newspaper upside down, we see the strange forms of the printed characters. When we turn it upright again, we do not see...

One morning a year ago, we were getting ready for work, when I saw a cat on a lower back step, stretched out and resting. It was Mr. Kibble ...

"The servant of God, then, must believe without the slightest doubt that the invisible God is near him, yes, within him. He should stan...

My brother is so organized in his gardening, and it's such a pleasant thing to look at. When we come out of the back door, we see the be...

I made new curtains for my brother's room today - his old ones were torn. I used a sheet from the thrift store. I guess I was p...

"Thus says the Lord to me:  I will quietly look on from where I dwell,  like the glowing heat of sunshine,  like a cloud of ...

"She loved beauty and she was creative, but her creativeness found its joy in the shaping of everyday life to a form of comeliness, so ...

"For what is the welcome of the host if behind it there is not the labour of the women? Through the years the three women had lit the f...

Well, why wouldn't she? It shows her off so well.