Mar 22, 2012 | Moments of Grace
So this is what my friend, Anne Creed, had to say about my questioning of God’s wisdom in bombarding us with pollen during the most pleasant of months: I don’t know, Cathy. I like the relentlessness of pollen. I like how I find it under my car hood in December,...
Mar 19, 2012 | 30 Days of Grace
This is one of my favorite places on Earth: This is how it looks through the prettiest and most pleasant season of the year, the time in which it would be most delightful to sit, read, eat, entertain, nap, and generally hang out there: The bagboy at Publix told me...
Mar 10, 2012 | 30 Days of Grace
It has been a tough couple of weeks. It has been a tough few months. That’s what I spent most of the day thinking, as I drove from appointment to appointment yesterday, greatly frustrated that my long-awaited day off was being eaten alive by things I...
Mar 5, 2012 | Moments of Grace
It was a pretty simple one, as emails go. But reading it 12 days later still brings a tear to my eye. To my friend Rigg Love you…heard you had a bad day… Coming by to see you Lis And shortly there at the door she was. With chicken salad and pasta salad and bread, and...
Feb 22, 2012 | god & grace
i love the quiet of lent. the stripping down. the reflection. the taking stock. i love the imposition of ashes; the outward and public sign of repentance. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. psalm 51:10 i love the quiet of...