Planting Life Lessons…

(click to enlarge) My husband loves working in the garden. For years he has pushed, begged, asked, implored, guilt-ed and nagged us girls to be BIG HELPERS in the garden. … yeah…it’s not our thing..but I must say we have gotten better at helping. We just don’t have the need to WORK in the SUN…

A little more Nitty Gritty.

Ok so I am at it again… some more NITTY GRITTY!! This whole post is making me uneasy. I wrote it and now I am adding this…. Learning to share my own lessons and struggles, hurts, and anger ….my humanness …my vulnerability. Opening up my thinking and feeling and heart here. So with that said…

The Resistance Within

Reading: Days of Deepening Friendship by Vinita Hampton Wright  Her site and to buy this book : http://deepeningfriendship.loyolapress.com/ PART 4 : RISISTANCE If we were designed for friendship with God, then why is it such a struggle to develop that friendship? …..We resist God. We avoid true contact with the Divine, and we do so for…

Authenticity

“authenticity” still remains the word most likely to stir a debate. – Mark Z. Danielewski – Quotesnack.com AUTHENTICITY: not false or imitation…. I read this quote and immediately I thought of how people say “I love authentic people….or I dont think she/he is very authentic. Well…… people are as authentic as they can be……..FOR OUT…

Through it…

While watching the movie LUTHER. Something a man said to him in this movie stuck out to me. WE PREACH BEST WHAT WE NEED TO LEARN MOST Each of us have a bent, a vice, tendency anger…critisism…hatred…intolerance…denial…pride…complacency…or the like. and when God has taken us on his journey…..his adventure…through each trial and testing…hardship…we are being…

WHAT TIME IS IT!!??

Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.-Kahlil Gibran – Quotesnack.com WINTER – When the days are shorter….the cold has set in…….hibernation a part of life……..things die back waiting for spring to renew. My heart every winter settles into a natural routine of introspection…….going…