Galatians 5:22-23a - The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (NIV)Our grape arbour is filled with grapes this year. What a joy it is to go pick this fruit directly from the vine. These are...
I've never seen such a lonely sight; As an apple tree with no fruit to bite. Empty fruit trees all around, no fruit do they bear; Empty world that's lost it's hope, for no one seems to care. The spoils of the rich and lazy, gotten by being plundered; From the backs...
A few months ago, I had the responsibility of delivering some donations to the local City Mission, a place where the homeless and often, the broken or bruised can find refuge from a life that has been turned upside down for them.It was late autumn, and already the...
John 15:4-5 - Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart...
John 15:5 - I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (NKJV)We have an hibiscus tree that I was given as a gift seven years ago. When I brought it home, it fit in the back seat of my...
Remember the days when you could order a cup of coffee in four syllables? A cup of coffee was a "cup of coffee." That's it. These days, coffee has been accessorized to triple its original syllablage. Or even more.Being the accessory overachiever that I am (if only you...
I gazed out my kitchen window as my husband, Mark, climbed up his ladder to begin cutting away the bare branches of our Chinese Persimmon tree in our backyard. Watching Mark wield his saw this way and that way, as each leafless, fruitless branch fell to the ground, I...