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Category: Haiku

  • February 8, 2023February 8, 2023
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A Shock of Surprise, Terror and More

  • Haiku

I had a shock of surprise and trauma, but I was not alone. God provided, through friends and family, upholding me through the entire ordeal.

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  • September 4, 2022September 5, 2022
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Light Fades Quickly as Day Gives Way to Night

  • Haiku

LIGHT FADES QUICKLY A log house on a hill is where I’ve made my home since the spring of 1998. Needless to say, over that many years with many people living here off and on, we’ve collected quite a bit of clutter. Cleaning house can […]

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  • August 30, 2022August 30, 2022
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Discover Inspiration for Poetry in 3 Easy Ways

  • Creativity

What do you do when you want to write poetry, but you have no inspiration? I’m sure everyone has their own ideas, and I also have my own. Today, I will share three easy ways to discover inspiration when it seems to be illusive.

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  • March 28, 2022July 20, 2022
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Living a Life of Hope while Suffering

  • Devotional

How can we be living a life of hope amidst the pain? What if, Instead of letting it rule us, we use it to drive us closer to God?

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  • September 7, 2020April 2, 2022
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Murmurs of Peace Reach My Heart

  • Creativity

What are murmurs of peace, and how can we hear them throughout our days? We each may have different experiences that wake up certain memories of times we felt calm and peaceful. But the connecting cord that binds us is the Holy Spirit, who Jesus […]

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  • April 6, 2020April 7, 2020
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April: A Typical Day for Me

  • A Simple Woman's Daybook

For the past several months I have found a routine that works pretty well for me, at least for the mornings. I wrote about that in THIS POST.  After breakfast my husband and I do some reading together. Then I head back upstairs to read in […]

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  • February 24, 2020March 9, 2022
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Yarn: Fun, Tangles and Lessons Learned

  • Haiku

The rest of the yarn was in the worst tangle I had ever seen. I wish I had a picture to show you. It was a mess – attached to the cone on one end, the unfinished hat on the other end and what seemed like another tangle leading out from the middle.

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  • October 12, 2019October 14, 2019
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Walking the Doodle Trail, Pickens, SC

  • Haiku

For the second time this week, my husband and I drove to the nearby town of Pickens, SC, to take a walk on the Doodle Trail. It used to be a railroad route but has been made into a lovely paved trail for bike riding […]

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  • October 2, 2019March 1, 2023
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Forest & Whisper: A Haiku

  • Haiku

It has been awhile since I participated with the Monday weekly haiku challenge at #RonovanWrites. My last time linking up was in the post Rainbow: Quiet Beauty with a Promise. This week I couldn’t resist, because I love the prompt words,  forest & whisper.   […]

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  • June 28, 2019March 27, 2021
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Stillness: Ten Minutes a Day

  • Haiku

In The Presence Project, led by Summer Gross, our practice this month is taking ten minutes of stillness each day. That is not a very long stretch of time, but it’s amazing what a few minutes does to bring calm on a busy day.   […]

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