Love your neighbor as yourself, huh?Not so easy. On this gorgeous spring (almost) morning, I took Chester and Winnie for the longer walk around the field. Knowing that we might run into some other dogs, I took plenty of pepperoni pieces to distract Chester, who can be quite overprotective and go into barking and lunge mode with strange dogs. He's become slack about trail … [Read more...] about 17th day of Lent
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16th day of Lent
So, in the interest of loving another as myself, I took Rick and his camera and we drove back to Middle Creek early this morning. This migratory pause of the snow geese was as lovely today as yesterday...even better, actually, to have shared it with another. … [Read more...] about 16th day of Lent
15th day of Lent
So I packed up my struggle with a sermon and my struggle with a headache and drove to Middle Creek where I found white on white on blue: sails on cirrus on sky; feathers on ice on lake. It was the migration of the snow geese. White, white and blue etched with black, that is. Black tips of wings in formation etched imaginary lines in the air. Snowy pairs coasted through … [Read more...] about 15th day of Lent
14th day of Lent
The end of the day.A quiet prayer for all of you, wherever you are in heart and mind tonight.A quiet prayer for myself: live in gratitude (Lent 12); shed complaining (Lent 13); love God and others (Lent 1).Prayer of thanks: the blue heron was fishing the creek this morning; it survived the winter. … [Read more...] about 14th day of Lent
13th day of Lent
No complaining. That's what the "Jesus Creed" (Mark 12:29-31) did. Stopped me dead in my tracks from complaining.After weeks of delay I had slipped away for two days...320 miles away. I had busily tied up all the loose ends at work so that I wouldn't have to think about work while I was gone. But work is a vocation, not a job. In the end, necessary emails, phone calls and … [Read more...] about 13th day of Lent