Sweet Rocket Bug Lights
There's a good sermon in eating an ice cream drumstick while driving on country roads in search of sweet rocket wildflowers. Wild purple sweet rocket blooms here in Kansas along creek beds and tucked in the shade of trees. It spreads where it's happy and can blanket whole creek beds or cottage gardens. You can smell the deep . . .
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Picking Mulberries
They couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. Mark 2:4
Imagine Jesus on a book tour. Scheduled to appear at your local library. I can imagine my nervous anticipation of what he . . .
Posted in: friendshipkansasspiritual
Memorial Gardens
Notes from Cemeteries
I know I've passed one of life's markers now that I want to visit cemeteries. I remember being baffled by my grandparents' desire to go to the cemetery on Memorial Day. It seemed so morbid and a distraction from good barbecue. Now I like to spend part of my lunch breaks and Saturday afternoons exploring them.
I . . .
Winter is Here
and it is beautiful
Kansas is closed, or so it seems watching the news scroll of school and church closings listed below the football game on tv. Our local church service was cancelled due to ice on the roads. We went three days scared to back down our driveway because we didn't know about things like bags of ice melt to spread before ice . . .
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Harvest
The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.--
Psalm 67:6 NIV
Thanks to my dad's friend and his brother I was able to ride along on a combine during the milo harvest. The combine's head used to cut the milo is thirty feet wide. I climbed up a side step ladder and overlooked the hundred . . .
Hometown Spirit, Holy Spirit
My dog came home from leg surgery with purple stitches. His vet graduated from Kansas State and is a huge Wildcats fan. K-State fever, thanks in no small part to the university's agricultural extension offices here in the post rock district, has painted the area purple. 
The Wildcats logo appears on limestone house markers, tees, . . .
The Kansas Wave
Commuting in Kansas is a whole different animal and by animal I mean cows. Cows like to wade in ponds in hot, humid weather. They gather on tops of knolls later in the day. They like to hang out with each other, which is sweetly surprising. And they are a lot of the excitement of driving to work. Them and tracking the progress . . .
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