Searching for a Balance

It's Pentecost, and the end of the Easter season. My brother starts back to work tomorrow. He will be working twelve hour days, six da...

I finished two more face masks today. My brother finally goes back to his shop Monday and I wouldn't want him to be short on masks. Of c...

I've been listening to the talks given during the Anselm Society's conference, Imagination Redeemed. At the end of this one , this p...

"...the Lord wills that all people be whole and sound and turn toward true knowledge. ...He hears their prayers when they call to him a...

My knitting is about twenty two inches long now,but the ball of yarn seems as huge as ever. I can't possibly keep going until it'...

My brother got a cookie mix for Christmas, in addition to all the actual cookies. Which are long gone, of course. But this mix was still aro...

There's a rabbit who appears across the brook most days, usually in the evenings. They can stay so still, can't they? Indefinitel...

Pentecost is in nine days. The disciples of Jesus prayed after He ascended, then the Holy Spirit came nine days later. We also will pray unt...

Little Annie is a year old today. Well, we don't know what day she was born, but May twenty first was on the receipt the last tim...

Overnight, I went from wearing my flannel nightgown to one of my summer ones. There's no going back now.

The little dogwood looks particularly lovely this spring. At last. A package came yesterday from our cousins in New York. Yoko made f...

When the weather got nice, we put the little Kibble figure out on the back stoop. Cyndi said it's made to be outdoors, but we still wan...

This one likes to go up and underneath the chair covers. We laugh a lot here.

A couple of weeks ago someone from the town came to the library with cloth masks for all of us. I've been bookmarking youtube video...

After the warmth of the previous weekend I expected things were taking a turn, but the weatherman is still saying we are twenty degrees cool...

"Since we are all so different, every so often I ask myself how God can love every single one of us with a unique, specific, and person...

Who can resist, when they have such a tree in their yard, taking photos?

I knit while listening to podcasts - make something while I'm (hopefully) being formed into something.

Yesterday and today are gifts, making up for the coldness of last month. And the cherry tree is blooming at last - later than usual. Th...

I didn't iron Saturday, I was keeping my foot up. Consequently when I wanted a tablecloth for Sunday the two I think of at Easter were w...

She still jumps up walls, trying to get things. Like the thermostat; she finally noticed it. And my brother said one day she hit the sw...

Fritz von Uhde Today's gospel passage deals with the appearance of Jesus to the apostles while along the road to Emmaus. They were ...

Where I live, April is supposed to be when spring begins to show itself. And it does; there are spring-flowering bulbs, shrubs and beautiful...

"It is the typical expression of divine power to make something from nothing. God has made the world where no world was, and God makes ...

I heard this read on a podcast and I immediately thought of Easter, the Resurrection, the road to Emmaus  -  our relationship with Lord in g...

It was violently windy much of today, with an inch or two of rain. I was defuzzing a sweater in the spare room when my brother called ou...

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. As, in a theatre, The lights are extinguis...

It's Holy Thursday. I've subscribed to a daily email during Lent from three women called Liturgical Reflections, and the following w...

I made another loaf of bread today, with a quarter teaspoon of yeast, again. I felt the previous one could have used a bit more water, or li...

O God, who willed your Son to submit for our sake  to the yoke of the Cross,  so that you might drive from us the power of the enemy, ...

The forsythia near the driveway is like a fluffy, yellow cloud.