“We need not despise happiness simply because there is so much unhappiness. We should not arrogantly push away the kind hand of God because God’s hand is otherwise so hard.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Throwing a football around the church field
Maples holding the light
Planting bulbs
Long Wednesday night foyer conversations
Coffee and brownies across the table from Papa, washing dishes with Mema, darkness settling in behind the trees and over the pond
Twilight through the windows of the house on Sunset Hill
The old, old oak in the lower field
Andrew Peterson’s new book, The God of the Garden
All day hike with Joel
Whispering Pines Trail
Yellow leaf and pinecone pipe
Golden hour in the forest and dinner in the deepening darkness
Bone weariness (and seat warmers)
Bonfire with the young adult group that seems to grow every week; Johnny and Amanda’s hospitality
Papa Larry coming up to dinner for the first dark night
Playing piano for Crosspoint chapel
Leaf whirlwinds
Running further
Flurries
Becca’s annual fall get-together — pals and chili and games and piano duets
Newhart
Truss day at the house on the hill, cars parked in the grass, men on the roof, Huddy and Bennett watching the crane
Sheltering Barrett in my arms from the wind
Guys back from hunting, a deer in the truckbed
Van trunk full of food and Dad grilling hot dogs for everyone
Rolling around in the grass with Bennett
Running to go see baby cows
A pile of wood chips for my garden (and how the sad deadness of cutting down an old tree can become lifegiving mulch for the garden next srpring)
A crick in my back and windburned cheeks
Celebratory Chinese takeout
Philippians
Home videos
Dancing, running around the yard after dark, burning energy
Night cloudgazing
The Most Reluctant Convert film on C.S. Lewis’ life story
Kickball
“My flesh also will dwell in hope.”
Cross-stitching and coffee
The day before Thanksgiving: sixty and windy, leaves tumbling across the road, houses smelling like cinnamon and brownies, good music at dusk
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