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Posted on 19 Dec 2021 by bethany j.

By Hannah Mead “I am coming,” He whispers, with cypress smoke and cinnamon. I’m waiting, straw clutched between cold fingers pushed through impatient pockets. But tonight, the promise of dawn lingers heavy below the horizon.  Perhaps Venus is pinned like a diamond in the darkness behind the shed that  tilts, weary, at the bottom of … Continue reading Advent

Posted in Advent, Beauty, Home, Light, Longing, Poetry, Winter5 Comments

A Holiday at the Sea

Posted on 6 Jun 2021 by bethany j.

Today, we're headed toward the sea. Since winter, when our plans for this trip were still scattered across the kitchen table, Papa Larry has brought a new scrapbook with him each time he’s come to dinner. They are all full and tell the stories of different trips he and Nanny took to Cape Cod (30 … Continue reading A Holiday at the Sea

Posted in Family, Lewis, Life, Longing, Rest, Sea, Sehnsucht, Sunday Sketches5 Comments

Seedtime

Posted on 7 Feb 20215 Mar 2021 by bethany j.

I was standing at the window this time last year, staring at the blank ground. My imagination had to stretch and bend to arrange irises, daffodils, zucchinis, cucumbers, and lettuce in their proper beds and boxes. I was sick with spring fever, and all I could do was write about it. But this winter, I’ve … Continue reading Seedtime

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Hey, friend.

I’m Bethany J., and this is my journal, because experts in the craft tell me to “write what you know.”

I’ve written things since I was a little girl in braids and rubber boots, but it wasn’t always about what I knew. 

It’s taken years for me to come full-circle, back to the front porches on Edgewood Road. God is working into me a love for place and an ambition that’s quieter, that minds its own affairs and works with its hands (1 Thess. 4:11).

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