A few months ago, I was filling the bird feeder with some beautiful shiny black sunflower seeds, when I remembered a weedy bare spot behind our back fence. I grabbed a trowel from the shed and dug eight Frisbee sized plots. Rabbits mowed down many shoots, but four sunflowers persevered growing tall. Everyday, an 18 […]
Monthly Archives: July 2020
Our Jewish kinfolks placed Ruth within a grouping called “The Writings”, along with books like Ester, Jonah, and Job. The Christian editors placed Ruth in the history section between Judges and 1 Samuel. Friends, Ruth is more of a play than a history. Ruth begins with a kind of “once upon a time”, “during the […]
Camp Compassion is our online VBS, where we are learning that compassion means: “I see your hurt, I feel your hurt with you, and I’ll work to ease your hurt.” This week we chatted about how compassion helps us be brave. I was turning that phrase over in my head,“compassion helps us be brave” , […]
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