Lord, That I May See

1.  This post brought to you today courtesy of : My kids are whizzes at setting the tent up and they will play for hours in it.  It's fantastic. :) 2. Whether you can tell in the above pic or not, our yard is looking really scruffy.  We are a little rancher in a cul-de-sac of beautiful new houses and its a little daunting.  Yes, our grass stays mowed (thank you, Grandbob!), but not much else.  So we are the house with the outdoor toys vomited all over the front yard and we are the people who saunter out to our cars on the weekend, guiltily noticing the neighbors in straw hats and gardening gloves meticulously weeding and mulching their beds and pretending we didn't.  Anyways, I can't mulch, because  Grandpa's Zinnias  are sprouting!  I'm so glad!   3.   On Mother's Day we took a trip to see Azalea Hill at an arboretum in our area.  I don't like azalea bushes any other time of the year, but they are gloriou...

 . . . and everything.  That ever-present clique of "time flies" is so annoyingly true that I can't stand it.  No sooner does one day, one experience, one thought pass through my life then it gets shoved unceremoniously out by the next.  It's too fast for my head . . . much less my heart . . . to keep up. 1. I love the spiritual writer Henri Nouwen.  I have quoted him  on this blog before , and most pertinently to my thoughts today,  I've quoted him about writing .  He says things about writing that makes me hunger to write more copiously, more often, more creatively, to stretch out my soul-wings in this way. “Writing is not just jotting down ideas. Often we say:  ‘I don’t know what to write. I have no thoughts worth writing down.’  But much good writing emerges from the process of writing itself. As we simply sit down in front of a sheet of paper and start to express in words what is on our minds or in our hearts, new ideas em...

1. Springtime is my favorite because of birthdays  2. And bluebells 3. And flowers 4.  And outside play 5.  And camping 6.  And watching the moon rise with Sparky 7.  And First Communion!  Rosebud is making her First Communion on May 8th.  We are excited and proud to have arrived at this special day!  Turtle will be singing in the "siblings of communicants" choir and Mommy will be wiping tears from her eyes . . . if she's not in the back missing the whole thing because of Mr. Sparky.   Pray for Rosebud please on her special day! Visit Kelly's for more 7 Quick Takes.