nature

  • Becoming Disturbed

    You can feel it without seeing it.  The blank stare—over the phone.  This was one of them.  I’d mentioned the Doctrine of Discovery with that tone of “of course you—as a leader within the Church—know something about this.”  I didn’t pick up on it… Continue reading

    Becoming Disturbed

  • All of Day

    Butterflies are flying.  I have set the irrigation lines and I’m now heading to turn on the irrigation pump.  I notice small white and orange butterflies, of to my left, as I drive the four-wheeler along the eastern edge of the hayfield.  I’m… Continue reading

    All of Day

  • Grass Theology

    Many of us have heard the phrase, “When the Christ in me meets the Christ in you.”  A simple way of saying the cosmos exists in the lives of all humans.  I find the phrase all the more interesting when I think… Continue reading

    Grass Theology

  • Awfully Good

    My eight-year-old granddaughter came home from school and told a story using the phrase “awfully good.”  Eyes rolled when I asked what do you mean by “awfully” good?  We talk from time to time about words she picks up from school.  You can… Continue reading

    Awfully Good