27 November 2016 REVIVE US AGAIN #1 "Hallelujah, Thine the glory. Hallelujah, Amen, Hallelujah, Thine the glory. Revive us again!" W. P. Mackay (1839-1885) in 1863 wrote that refrain in "We praise Thee O God." I have yet to check out the context of the then times in Scotland, but I do know this Presbyterian preacher, …
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Featured image: The super moon, seen from our driveway, early Monday shivering morning, 14 November. You don't say #12, Wednesday 16 November 2016--Words. Actions. Words, actions, words, actions, words—the two are inextricably connected, whether we like it or not. I am deeply troubled by the words and actions in the campaigning for Election 2016. I’m dismayed …
Featured image: Frozen in flight, a sculpture between Montague and Whitehall, Michigan. You don't say #10, Wednesday, 9 November 2016--On election day, while waiting for our car's tires to be rotated, the conversation among three of us customers started as harrumphing about the political ads still running on TV, but soon turned to a tastier topic: food. Simple stuff. …
Featured image: A diminutive door to a fairy garden in a giant tree at Oxbow County Park. Good to know the fairies have a garden and a home--and a patron. You don't say #9, Friday, 4 November 2016--Actually, this week colors did a lot of talking. Sunday: walk around St. Joe Manor, Elkhart Monday: walk before …
Featured image: These goats and a flock of wild turkeys were finding good pickings in this harvested field of corn in Westfield. All around Westfield, subdivisions, shopping centers, hotels, restaurants, and a big sports complex--one building with three regulation size soccer fields--are sprouting up in former corn and bean fields. You don't say #8, Saturday 29 …
You don't say #7--Saturday 22 October 2016--It's morning. Not at all early. The sun shone on trees across the river before being hidden by clouds. I've opened the two greatroom shutters to bring more of the outside in. The bales of straw that Christina and Ricky used last Saturday as seating for their backyard wedding …
Featured photo: Last days of blooming for our Gerbera daisies. You don't say #6, Saturday 15 October 2016--"Corn, corn, corn, it makes me feel forlorn, on the farm, on the farm; corn, corn, corn, it makes me feel forlorn on the hinky, dinky Double D Farm. "My eyes are dim, I cannot see, I have …
Featured image: Sunrise over Mackinac Island, Tuesday 4 October 2016. You don't say #5, Saturday 8 October, 2016--At lunch on Monday in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the waitress seated a young family of four at a table near us. They were subdued. The dad told the waitress their pop-up camper failed to pop up Sunday night. …
You don't say #4, Friday 30 September, 2016--I love fall. Ah, Autumn It's a time to gather in. Clean up. Breathe the pungent air. Watch the squirrels. Give thanks for the summer past and the future in the wings. Autumn's here. I savor the moment. I call this blog Past, Present, Future: Live It Now. "Now" has both before and …
Featured image caption: Women at Prairie Street Mennonite Church stitched a quilt for the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale, 9/24. They named it Magenta Kaleidoscope Wonder. It's a wonderful gift for the relief, development and peacebuilding work of MCC. It sold to a member of our church for $400. The Prairie Street children's My Coins Count offerings …
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