Knitting and Crocheting the Shawls

I am continuing my series this week on prayer shawls, today’s post is how they are made and a sample prayer as you knit the shawl.  I want to clarify right up front, I don’t knit or crochet.  I heard about the prayer shawl ministry at a parish nursing class. I was fascinated with it, [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Prayer Shawls

By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me -
a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 42:8
Prayer Shawls have seen a resurgence with several books being written about creating them as well as a website for information (see my blogroll). Even the novelist  Debbie Macomber included a prayer shawl story [...]

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When it’s Time to Move On

How do geese know
when to fly to the sun?
Who tells them the seasons?
How do we, as humans,
know when it’s time to move on?
As with the migrant birds,
so surely with us,
there is a voice within,
if only we would listen to it,
that tells us so certainly
when to go forth into [...]

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Lavender Fields

“Ladies fair, I bring to you lavender with spikes of blue; sweeter plant was never found growing on our English ground.”  Caryl Battersby
I have been driving by the lavender fields at a local farm that sells produce and have been longing to stop and walk in the fields of lavender.  Sunday afternoon I went to [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Children

On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies [...]

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Make A Magazine Cover

Mary at Little Red House (http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/) had a challenge to make a magazine cover with your blog.  I went to the site at flickr and gave it a try, then my husband gave it a try, then we kept playing with the pictures, the colors, well….you get the idea.  It was fun and rather addicting.  [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Serenity Prayer

Full Original Serenity Prayer
by Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus [...]

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Blue Skies

Yesterday was the last day of our 4th of July holiday. The yard didn’t get mowed, the fence didn’t get painted, the garden never got weeded.  But the sun shined, the sky was blue, we hiked in the mountains, enjoyed the river, and went for a drive. We went to the Tall Ships  Festival [...]

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And the Winner’s Are…

Home for me is a mixture of the places I have loved, and have been planted in. Perhaps like the rose that gets divided and transplanted, part of me remains there, and part of me is here, blooming in two places. The dividing was painful and at times I wasn’t sure I would live through [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Rich in Roses

I’d rather have roses on my table
than diamonds ’round my neck.
Emma Goldman

My roses have brought me such joy this summer that I would have to agree with [...]

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