by Carole Duff | May 16, 2022 | Faith, Nature |
Vision is a thing (image, idea) seen and the sense (sight) by which a thing is seen. Vision of the Prayer of Jabez After studying and journaling about The Lord’s Prayer, our small group tackled The Prayer of Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4, the basis for the Prosperity Gospel...
by Carole Duff | May 9, 2022 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Both sustenance and fear on Friday night Thunder and lightning accompanied the rain, beating against the windows here at Vanaprastha. I’d prayed for rain to sustain the newly-sprouted and newly-planted vegetation. Prayer answered? Though quite deaf in her old...
by Carole Duff | Apr 11, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family |
Curly, Cato, and Slick – photographed by “Shirley” “I’m writing about the pandemic and would like your opinion,” I said to my neighbor Shirley [name changed] as we walked. We had three dogs on leash—mine and two from another neighbor who is unable to...
by Carole Duff | Mar 7, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family |
History Keepers appeared last week on The Perennial Gen as part of this month’s theme based on Michelle Van Loon’s just-released and highly recommended book Translating Your Past. *** During Mother’s years in assisted care, I made the daytrip to share lunch with her...
by Carole Duff | Feb 7, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading |
Forgiveness requires us to own up to our sins and confront our brothers and sisters in Christ when they do wrong. Today, I revisit a post about the former, published by The Perennial Gen last Friday as Learning to Speak Forgiveness, and a version of which first...
by Carole Duff | Jan 31, 2022 | Faith, Nature |
I took our seasonal lightening down this morning. Since Thanksgiving, the loft garland lights stayed on from the moment of our pre-dawn arising to bedtime. We’d come to expect that lightening; the lights looped over the loft railings greeted us every morning along...
