Searching for a Balance

"How much art there can be,... in the small ways of living. Sometimes we get lazy, but I think the effort spent in putting an ironstone...

"Even if the work of each day has been perfectly achieved we don't know what use the Lord is going to make of it...and if it is ext...

A blue heron stopped by yesterday; I saw him out my window, a tall slim creature with legs like a stork. This might be the third time one ha...

We haven't had a day yet that I would consider a quintessential September day. Crisp, clear air and deep blue sky, wonderful for doing a...

My brother always says that Sweetie has a sad expression. (she's not sad, just her expression!) The other day it suddenly occurred ...

Mr. Kibble, this morning. He came around, but didn't seem very hungry; it's hard to know the reason. But he sat there and looked a...

fresh off the vines and warm from the sun.

Our God, supreme and good, how richly you have loved! But nations die for lack of food, and are we still unmoved? So keen to eat ...

Today I used the oven a lot, which warmed up the house - it's amazing how fast things can cool off after excessive heat and humidity. On...

"I suppose maturity might be defined as a willingness to shell peas. When I was growing up, I would do almost anything to avoid sitting...

last week today

Something else from Magnificat: Think of some very humble and ordinary form of making, like the sewing of a patch on a coat. You can rega...

This was in Magnificat today, and I thought it interesting -    "Our whole life is an effort towards this unity, this harmony, that w...

Well, not entirely. I was just thinking of Mr. Kibble - his chronic upper respiratory congestion, his missing teeth, his stressed-out h...

I'm going to make an apron for someone, and even though I have a few patterns, I decided to copy the one Margaret sent me.   I thin...

"...sundials mark only the hours that shine"                                                         -  Gladys Taber ,  Stillmea...

"..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 ...