Hello, friends! I’m still here… just busy-beeing my way through the most intense part of the year at the farm. I’m working hard to walk and grow in grace, just like I trust you are in your unique world, weathering the demanding (though insanely beautiful) days.

I’m praying that we all will share TRUE beauty, practically *and* spiritually in this back-to-school, end-of-summer, tradition-filled yet fraught-with-too-many-changes season.

Luke 16:10a One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much.

So often for me it’s the “very little” things that get to me. The little bit of extra whining, the little bit extra lack of sleep, the verrrry little bit of peaceful quiet time that is incredibly elusive some days…. but I’m still supposed to be faithful in the little things. The small details matter. The small reactions count. The small decisions add up.

Much of what my hands are called to do feels so temporary these days. Somehow, grass grows back, as do weeds. Beautiful arrangements fade and need to be replaced. Empty tummies need refilling so quickly! Clean laundry doesn’t stay that way for long. Do you feel it too? Does your heart long to work on something enduring and eternal? I’ve been meditating on how eternal the beauty of God is. It may be a few days before I come back to this space but I’d encourage you to do the same. As our hands fly with necessary busy-ness, our words and the tempo of unhurried living and our attitudes can build an eternally valuable character of peaceful beauty in our families and community!

I Corinthians 2:7-10 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.