by Charity Singleton Craig | Aug 5, 2012 | Archived Blog Posts
For weeks I haven’t had to worry about mowing my yard or trimming the bushes or pulling weeds from the flower beds. The drought here in the Midwest has all but taken care of the yard work for the season. Even the watering became almost futile a couple of weeks...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Apr 10, 2012 | Archived Blog Posts
I began this year’s garden a couple of weeks ago. To be technical, I began the garden about six weeks ago when I started the process of removing the sticks and leaves from the raised beds and cultivating the dirt with a hoe and the tired muscles in my back and...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Mar 29, 2012 | Archived Blog Posts
This time last year, I had visions of a new home. This old one, well, it was getting on my nerves. The carpet was dingy, the electricity, surgey, and the yard, weedy. I wanted to live in a new place, to make my mark on a new neighborhood, to have a bathtub that...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Jan 11, 2012 | Archived Blog Posts
This weekend, I was waiting on news. The mind crushing, soul bruising waiting that happens when the outcome is uncertain. I feared — no, expected — the worst. In between the moments of panic when I was nearly undone, I found solace in this: casting my...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Dec 29, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
I began last year by cleaning out my spare bedroom, preparing for my sister to come and live with me for three months. As I pulled books off shelves and clothes out of closets, the Lord impressed on me that 2011 would be the year of “Empty.” And so I set...
The Wonder of the Past: H...
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Published at Five Minute Friday.
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During their 40 years wandering the desert, the Israeli...
Drenched in a Metaphor
I found a metaphor growing in my garden over the weeken...
