Tag: rest

• Martha, Martha

  In that funny timing only God can orchestrate, the biblical story of Mary and Martha showed up in my quiet time right on the heels of writing a recent blog post, which I ended with the words, “Lord, what am I supposed to do? Where am I supposed to follow you? Am I placing too […]

  Eliana

  August 11, 2020

  Christianity, Scriptures

  Bible, Christianity, gospel, Jesus, rest, scripture, work

• collected thoughts, viii

  

  Summer is haying season. The field out back has been mowed up (RIP bird nests), grass swathed in semi-neat windrows left to dry and ready for baling. And no, I did not know most of that off-hand. Had to look it up, and it only took me eight years of living here to wonder at […]

  Eliana

  May 20, 2020

  Quarantine

  birds, birdwatching, Books, city, countryside, reading, rest

• Sabbath

  some spaces to cry: the edge of a sea green bathtub because they shouldn’t be texting you Monday chapel if the worship team makes you sing songs about ashes a full-length mirror crudely stuck to the wall you’ll think you look like a monster on Amazon while looking for a cheap, single-serve coffee maker the […]

  Eliana

  October 28, 2019

  Poetry

  crying, mental health, Poetry, rest, sabbath, space, Stories, storytelling