Monday, April 30, 2012

The Rest of April's JOY DARE

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17:  3 gifts woven together...cotton towels for kitchen wiping then bleaching, my life into the medical community of a small town, and with effort Jesus into my thinking

18:  3 gifts inherited...cowlicks, thrashing through sleep, blue Masons old and elegant

19:  3 gifts square...me, the town center, large flour sack towel glowing white

20:  3 gifts stacked, stashed, stilled...suitcases on the truck tucked under a rain tarp, snacks for the travelers, two excited babes eager for farm days ahead

21: 3 gifts found in Christ...rising sun, raising babes and risen Son

22: 3 gifts close...6 traveling in one truck and two car seats, family binds on a weekend trip, the sleeping babes on the living room pallet

23: 3 gifts reflecting...busy weekend full of adventure, the beauty of farm life and the ever changing landscape, a weary face from a long Monday

24: 3 gifts fragile...blistered leg reaction bite, new rope burn across the eye, injured spirit of a girl growing tough

25: 3 gifts cloth, steel, wood...daily clothing, nerves for a busy day, piles in the backyard evidence of work

26: 3 gifts moving...a storm through the night, the fog rolling, the end of a work week and piles of charts

27: 3 gifts "ugly beautiful"...callused hands from work, abrasion on the girl's face from the pup-dog, chaosed house in a full life

28: 3 gifts orange...lovely purses, a child's baby tiger favored, Gloria doll's magnificent hair

29: 3 gifts in dirt...the heaped mounds ready for planting, lettuces galore, strawberries delish

30: 3 gifts given, made, sacrificed...photo time for a friend, decisions of sharing Christ even through a stammering mind, His life for this soul and yours




Monday, April 16, 2012

JOY DARE April 16

3 hard eucharisteos

a young child's manuevering through friends and rules and expectations
mama's heart hurting for her learning
daddy's strength in the correction process

Sunday, April 15, 2012

JOY DARE April 15

a gift in a bag, in a box, in a book

bible teaching books, leftovers for a quick supper, nite-nite stories for the bedtime ritual

Friday, April 13, 2012

JOY DARE April 13

3 gifts bright

The girl's eyes this morning...ready for Friday
Fluorescents in the office
The amazing sun up and over the dark horizon clouds

Thursday, April 12, 2012

JOY DARE April 12

3 gifts worn

new short hairdo
thread bare quilts from Granny and Granny Stevens
bandaid on an injured but healing foot

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

JOY DARE April 11

3 gifts budding or blooming...in the red dirt world of north carolina

I was just struck by the beauty of the plowed rows being made ready for planting.  Such a rhythm and shifting of the seasons that strikes my soul as right. I love being a red dirt girl.
But for now the gifts I see out my front door are:
violet verbena
pink azaleas
purple sage
and my allergies!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

JOY DARE April 10

3 gifts opened up

Dad's 65th year
hearts of my sisters in our women's group
a dried soul, recently wounded physically, now seeking


driving to church at sunset, Hanging Rock and Pilot Mountain on the far horizon