Devotionals

https://youtu.be/lgAjwZ5G-Pw?si=NLDldGdPDoC8agbZ work:  1. activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result. wonder:  1. desire to be curious to know something. “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down.Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”~Nehemiah 6:3~ “When they saw… Continue reading Work

https://youtu.be/EMXUiMA0IIE?si=lwcqAhyB1Aqstgix “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them,because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.”~Matthew 9:36~ “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart,and you… Continue reading Rest

https://youtu.be/LpXMnY_t03M?si=rj2BnTCEObvtpAoh   “The wind is moving but I am standing stillA life of pages waiting to be filled.”~Michael W. Smith~ “Forget the former things;Do not dwell on the past.See, I am doing a new thing!Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?I am making a way in the wildernessAnd streams in the wasteland.”~Isaiah 43:18-19~… Continue reading Solstice

“In the Bleak Midwinter,” rendition by Julia Bloom https://open.spotify.com/track/4Zsq1ULPQoX3vVuM3DHyuu?si=frCQXUMnQ0-X9g4vGCjYwg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3BBucEuF6lhWhzsq9djuZs   “In the bleak mid-winterFrosty wind made moanThe earth stood hard as ironWater like a stoneHow snow had fallenSnow on snow on snowIn the bleak mid-winterLong, long agoWhat can I give himPoor as I am?If I were a shepherd I would bring a lambAnd if I… Continue reading An Unhurried Hallow: Love

“Darkness was cheap,and Scrooge liked it.”Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol “The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.”~Psalms 18:28~ Traditionally, our third candle is pink, the liturgical color that represents joy. The third Sunday in Advent has been referred to as Gaudete Sunday. As Philippians 4:1 admonishes us: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will… Continue reading An Unhurried Hallow: Joy

An Unhurried Hallow:  Peace “Peace I leave with you; my peace I given you.I do not give to you as the world gives.Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”~John 14:27~ “Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without… Continue reading An Unhurried Hallow: Peace

“We are so attached to…our fast, experiential, adrenaline-addicted culturethat we confidently call physical spikes energy and spiritual spikes inspiration.”~ABC, The Sacred Slow, p. 3~ And in the early morning,while it was still dark,He arose and went out and departed to a lonely place,and was praying there.~James 4:8~ What am I looking for? I thought, as… Continue reading An Unhurried Hallow: Hope

“G is for garlicO let us gush!In praise and thanksgivingFor the savory rush!”~Shelley Cramm~https://www.gardenindelight.com/40-cloves-garlic-poem/ I practically drooled at the rustic image in front of me as I stood in the mud room, chatting with my friend about her garlic! Bunches of garlic hung drying, draped over a couple laundry racks. I had not ever planted… Continue reading Garlic

“I am like a little child;I don’t know how to do what must be done…I ask that you give me a heart that understands…”~1 Kings 3:7, 9 NCV~ ~Proverbs 1:1-7~ “An aristocratic herb with a savory flavor and hidden tang” (Lesley Bremness, The Complete Book of Herbs, p.165), tarragon is an essential ingredient in French… Continue reading Tarragon

https://youtu.be/eKcImiTxqKg?si=_hyjqzyh035tHo9_   “Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”~Deuteronomy 6:8 CSB~ “This observance will be for you like a sign on your handand a reminder on your forehead that this law of the Lord… Continue reading Write Your Story