• Heart Work

    Lovely Lydia dipped cloth  in indigo dye, dressing royalty in the Kingly color of the day. I am wrapped today in color  of another hue~ scarlet red~ covering me in impossibly  laundered linens purchased by the Savior King who died descending into darkness, bursting forth in a blaze of Color That is Not– Purest White.

  • Eden DNA

    We were made for Edendwellers with Godin his greengloryand goodnessamong the viningwonder and fragrant trees.We came from dirtcreation,witness to his fillingof this face of the earthwith his endlessimaginationnamed“witch hazel”“flowering quince”“red currant”“sweetbox.”He charged us ascaretakers of His Garden,resident keepers inhabiting the Heaven here on Earth (truly)made for eternity (Ecclesiastes 3)but shorting out our livesby seeking solace elsewhere.We sit…

  • Putting it Together

      Our dining room is topsy turvy. Kitchen chairs and barstools are hidden and stashed in a closet in the bedroom. There’s no room for but four people at our dining table. The living room bookshelves now attend the table, stacked on their sides and emptied, banana boxes stuffed with the contents. Pieces of furniture…

  • Soul Sisters

    These are my thoughts about an honorary member of my birth family, my just-like-a-sister Sandy. Forty years ago this week she dared me into going to church–Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California. It was the height of the ‘Jesus Movement’ of the 70’s and Sandy had been hounding me to go and give my life to Jesus.My…

  • A very clean 2013

    Well, it seems that wayanyway. Clean and all.Open, blank, unwritten on. And the smashing white/bluesky is limitless today.How unlike our skies to be thatway this day. But it is (a gift!Thank you, God.) SO, making the mostof a Beautiful Good ThingI will do what anyordinary human ought to do. Start well by cleaning the bathrooms…