Not too far from my house there is a patch of woods that runs along a bluff overlooking the Missouri River. It’s in a place that is quite special to me. To get there you have to enter a cemetery. I grew up not far from this cemetery, so going there is like revisiting my childhood. My siblings and I used to ride our bikes through it as kids. Once in a while, intrigued by the antiquity of them, we would stop to look at the graves.
Once inside…
Look at these two little stinkers. They look like they’re up to something here don’t they?
We enjoyed a beautiful fall day on Sunday. After church, we went apple picking and pumpkin grabbing.
The kids wanted to go in the hay maze at the pumpkin farm. Papa got them started but they ALL decided it was too big and too dark.
As he walked to the car to get a flashlight, a woman consoled him in that her seventeen year old son was too afraid…
Honthorst, Gerrit van, Adoration of the Child, c. 1620
Luke 22:41-44
“41 And he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed, 42 saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” 43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
Matthew 26:67-68
“67 Then they spit in his face…
“I am surrounded by death.” These are my words I brought out as my husband brought home a deer last night. The first one of this season…and the first of a very long season of not getting one. I tried to be happy for him but…I still felt sad when I saw the once wild doe now limp and lifeless. I am happy for my hunter-gatherer man but…this week it is another death.
A sister in Christ went home last week to be with Jesus and one…
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