Searching for a Balance

The purple-leafed plum was blooming a week ago, and it was exciting to see: the first blooming tree. Four days later, it was over! We did ha...

 "Whoever said that to speak about Christ and to spread his doctrine, you need to do anything unusual or remarkable? Just live your ord...

I tend to plan my blogging for the end of the day, but it often happens that I'm tired, or involved in something, or it's too late, ...

 "We must contain ourselves in patience, remembering each morning that our main job is to love God and to serve him and if we don't...

  a woodland themed towel from Debra! I figure that normal temperatures for this time of year should be in the mid-fifties. Not this week, t...

  God of everlasting mercy, ...increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand at what font they h...

 I hope everyone had a lovely Easter observance. Our orthodox friends will have it tomorrow. The season lasts until Pentecost - we have a ni...

 Love lives again, That with the dead hath been. Love is come again Like wheat that springeth green... Dierec Bouts

Holy Saturday almost escapes us in the rush from Good Friday to Easter. What are we to make of this strange and silent day, thousands of yea...

Upon this wood his body bore The nails, the taunts, the spear, Till water flowed with blood to wash The whole world free of fear.  Giotto...

 "There is an inner as well as an outer Jerusalem, and that therefore the events of Holy Week are both about Jesus' outward, visibl...

 "I was never more at ease than when sleeping with the bears. They were entirely without odor, without bad breath even two hours after ...

 "We say that we believe. And yet do we? At the slightest difficulty, we cry to God, and if he doesn't answer our prayer within the...

 I'm back to making bread; it seems, along with soup, a Lenten thing to have.  Here's the recipe   The soup I made today was potato ...

"On this mountain [God] will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, The web that is woven over all nations; he will destroy death for...

  O God, your love for the world transforms darkness into light, hatred into love,  and persecution into peace through the gift of your only...

 Well, the split in my thumb is healed, and I stitched up the opening on the chair cushion. It was awkward using the curved needle, but not ...

 "Most of us are under pressure, external and internal, to do everything, be good at everything, be accountable to everyone for everyth...

 We're in for some very springlike temperatures this week. The snow has greatly receded, the grass is showing itself, along with puddly ...

  Jewish and Christian traditions of spirituality speak of the Word of God as the living water whereby the spirit is cleansed and refreshed....

 "Lent is a time of transformation. As we gaze into the dark faith of prayer upon the glory of God revealed in Jesus Christ, we are tra...

 The paths my brother plowed for the rabbits are getting wider, the grass in them is more visible. Water was running into the drains at the ...

 At ten or eleven last night, visibility was low and snow was falling hard, but no wind. This morning the wind picked up, but the snow wasn...

 The snow started around or right after seven thirty; it isn't a blizzard yet, but they're saying it's going to be. Right now it...

 "Life means the fullest possible give and take between the living creature and its environment: breathing, feeding, growing, changing....

 "When we life our eyes from the crowded by-pass to the eternal hills; then, how much the personal and practical things we have to deal...

 I just finished In This House of Brede with an online group - an excellent story! So many characters, so many personalities and lots going ...

Spring is definitely in the air! It's warmer, but not terribly; but the birds are singing, the daylight lasts longer, the paths my broth...

 When I want to wash my face, I shut the bathroom door to keep Daisy out; she will come in when the faucet turns on and get in the way. Some...

 "Faith... is a great cannon which hurls man out beyond the boundaries of the universe into the world of the infinite. It is not to be ...

 Snow was predicted last night and all day today, and by morning light, everything looked fresh. Then around eight, visibility dropped and t...