Flowers

Het Loo a palace near Apeldoorn Netherlands

I will start this post with two thoughts one from Deuteronomy 6:4,5 and one from Leviticus 19:18. Then see what Jesus says to a lawyer who asks a question: ‘Master, which is the great commandment in the law?’ Here are the two Old Testament quotes: Hear, Oh Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And you will love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. (Sandy says…

A truncated vase with…

three bright pink hyacinths. This spring I will soon be two years younger than my mother. My sister will be five and a half years from her age. How time sweeps us all in the direction of togetherness. A white trancated cone vase with large spaces between the pink hyacinth blooms. Each top flower of each stem a little different in weathering and age. Each flower stem with tortured willow twigs nearby. Each twig carrying new small leaves and…

On the shrub and then alone.

Here is the ending of a powerful prayer where Paul is speaking: ‘Now to God who is able to do far more/ exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory… by Christ Jesus throughout all ages,world without end. Amen.’ It is one with a million on the shrub But One in a million on its own. Happy Valentines Day. I will spend it with my one…