Sacred Life Sunday: Summer into Fall

Autumn to winter, winter to spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall-
So rolls the changing year, and so we change;
Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
-Dinah Mulock Craik
Summer is such a sweet season. The last weekend in August feels like grains of sand flowing through our fingers with just a few precious days remaining.  [...]

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Baby Shower Favors

This weekend I made favors for a baby shower my daughter was hostessing.  I’ve gotten rave reviews over these little square of fudge tied with a hand stamped tag. I make the fudge, and cut it into squares, putting them in a baggy.  I then tie a loop, and then slide the tag on the [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Still Water

Magnified view, click on image and drag to move.
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
In fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.
I [...]

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Little Lamb Card

Yesterday I went on an all day trip to Impress Stamps in Seattle to check out their store.  I was impressed!  It was a  stampers heaven with thousands of stamps, and beautiful card ideas displayed.  I had to completely restrain myself from spending hundreds of dollars, but I did come home with a few sweet [...]

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Sweet Simple Things: Peach Cobbler

Summer time is the season for peach cobbler at our house.  While the cobbler doesn’t look that inviting, trust me…it is wonderful!!  I got the recipe from Southern Living about ten years ago.  They had interviewed an elderly peach farmer and she gave them her cobbler recipe.  It is so simple and easy, a child [...]

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Sweet Simple Things: Kitchen Windows

The sweetest view to any home lover is the view from her kitchen window.  I gaze out my kitchen window many times during the day as I work and it’s one of the first things I look out of every morning.  My kitchen window does not look out on anything spectacular, it is an old [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: The Promise

I didn’t marry you because you were perfect. I didn’t even
marry you because I loved you. I married you because you
gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults.
And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect
people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage.
And when our [...]

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Always

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
I Corinthians 13:7

Sometimes hard times come one after another like storms in hurricane season. When you look back on the year, it feels like your life today hardly resembles the sweet life you use to have.  As a couple, you decide if you are going to [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: One World One Dream

“For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.” -Donald Williams
Yesterday was the much anticipated kick off to the Olympics.  I [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Whichever One You Feed

An old Cherokee tale tells of a grandfather teaching life principles to his grandson. The grandfather tells his grandson, “son, on the inside of every person a battle is raging between two wolves. one wolf is evil. It is angry, jealous, unforgiving, proud and lazy. The other wolf is good. It is filled with love, [...]

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