Thursday, April 3, 2014

.my small cup of life.

loving my sunny tiny home in the spring.
loving filling it with friends and flowers.

my girls came over on sunday to help me garden.
kim went to the farm store with me the night before to help me pick the best seeds for cutting bouquets.

everyone out and about in the warmer weather
means afternoons at the park
and more spontaneous drop-by visits
(9th grade boys knocked while I was melting old wax down; so they made candles too).

potted plants and watering new green,
vases full of color in every room,
lots of dates at the town bakery, dinners and baking and walks...

i am enjoying this season.


"[The wren] delivers such a cantering praise-
for what?

For the early morning, the taste of the spider,

for his small cup of life
that he drinks from every day, knowing it will refill.

All things are inventions of holiness...











window note by Avery across the street, age 7.


left in our shared laundry room by my next door neighbor.


a 10-year-old doing homework at my kitchen table
(requested no face in the picture. note the socks.)




Fawvers made new counters. It's way exciting. I "helped" (ate their food while they worked).











...every morning, there's my own cup of gladness."

-Mary Oliver




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As fellow travelers on this journey, we commit to this covenant before God. Lord, in Your mercy, hear these our prayers:

When confronted with scarcity, need, and inadequacy, may we be nourished by the Bread of Life and the Cup of Salvation. Abundance overflows from Your table, sustaining all who come in faith. Father, help us.

When monotony blurs our vision and dulls our senses, may we encounter others as Christ did, through intentional presence in daily life, submitting as clay to be formed into vessels filled with the Spirit. Christ, guide us.

When wounded by the fractured condition of Your people, may we be united by Your Lordship in faith, hope, and love; seeing, as through the facets of a diamond, the beautiful spectrum of Your light reflected onto Your holy Church joined in praise. Spirit, empower us.

When all Creation groans, afflicted by injustice and driven to despair, may the promise of redemption root us in the hope of Your Kingdom: "Behold, I am making all things new!"

Holy Trinity, send us now into the world in peace, and grant us strength and courage to love and serve You with gladness and singleness of heart.

Amen.