tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10078095562439002292024-02-19T09:08:54.618-08:00OUT IN THE FIELDSOut in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.comBlogger761125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-59774761106795220192015-01-11T18:04:00.000-08:002015-01-11T18:04:01.569-08:00Endings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I really need to do this...</div>
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but I don't like to give up on things.</div>
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Sometimes you just have to let go</div>
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of the things that you promised </div>
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you would never let go of.</div>
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This blog is one.</div>
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I thought before that I would write on here </div>
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and take photos and love to share</div>
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forever, </div>
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but now it has become a part of my life </div>
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that I can no longer keep up with-</div>
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I have a store</div>
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I have a job</div>
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I have too much to do</div>
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So I have to let this go...</div>
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The other part of my life that has just ended </div>
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is too painful to write about here...</div>
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It was a promise I made until death</div>
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but I had to let go...</div>
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doors close</div>
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doors open</div>
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The One who said</div>
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"I am the door" is the only One</div>
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who remains ever true and faithful</div>
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and who never breaks His promises.</div>
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That is how I want to end my blogging</div>
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years, with my hand on the Door.</div>
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thank you to all of you have followed </div>
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along on this journey</div>
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Be blessed in Christ alone.</div>
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Karen</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-54225341032386997142014-12-24T17:31:00.000-08:002014-12-24T17:31:04.835-08:00December<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"December is Christmas...</div>
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With each setting of the sun,</div>
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and the rising and setting of the moon </div>
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and stars in the dark sky, the wonder grows.</div>
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It is not so much in color as in absence of color, </div>
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less in sound than in absence of sound, </div>
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not at all in fragrance but in absence of fragrance;</div>
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that is of the earthly color, sound and fragrance. </div>
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Each day there seems less of all that has been familiar</div>
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in the earlier months of the year, </div>
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and more that is new though not strange.</div>
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Gradually the world becomes another place, </div>
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suffused by gentle radiance, </div>
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cupped in innocence and infinite wisdom, </div>
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carried aloft by unseen winds which bear it</div>
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closer and closer to the Source of all wonder."</div>
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Gladys Hasty Carroll</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-49996467535351527632014-11-27T13:59:00.002-08:002014-11-27T13:59:30.158-08:00November<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"November is a russet apple with a glint of gold in</div>
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it's rough brown skin,</div>
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one dry leaf clinging to its blackened stem, </div>
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a brisk spicy flavor at its core. </div>
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It is cider working in dark barrels,</div>
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reddish brown sawdust blanketing the sills,</div>
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amber-eyed cows chewing all day in the stanchions.</div>
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It is stately fowl on yard parade in brown and gray feathers </div>
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and red combs, and many brown eggs in the barn cellar nests at night. </div>
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It is grey crocks filled with barberry sauce</div>
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and great cubes of translucent pumpkin, </div>
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scarlet cranberries drying in the open chamber</div>
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. A lamp or lantern held high in the dark dairy</div>
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reveals a mosaic of jellies, preserves, shrubs, </div>
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wines, bottled herbs and yellow cream rising in shallow pans."</div>
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Gladys Hasty Carroll</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-70506378765254240872014-10-29T19:49:00.000-07:002014-10-29T19:49:36.090-07:00October <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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October is age regal and triumphant, </div>
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the impartial judge on the bench,</div>
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the dowager duchess, wise, strong, </div>
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and in excellent health, </div>
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bearing easily the weight of velvet robes </div>
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which change with shifting light from deep blue</div>
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to plum color and crimson,</div>
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of heavy chains, heavy pins, </div>
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heavy rings all of gold, </div>
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all of the great keys which this month</div>
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is the keeper of the coin of the realm</div>
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secreted in the robe's capacious pockets."</div>
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Gladys Hasty Carroll</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-68637840413515765372014-09-29T22:14:00.002-07:002014-09-29T22:14:59.660-07:00September<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"September is a banner of soft purple </div>
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and metallic gold proudly </div>
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suspended across the sky...</div>
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The sand y roads are bordered deep </div>
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in goldenrod and wild asters.</div>
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Sweet apples and Porters are yellow</div>
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in the orchards and blue</div>
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pearmains are ripening.</div>
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Maple trees are touched with yellow</div>
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from the first frost.</div>
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Pumpkins are drawn by the cartload </div>
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from the fields and stacked beside the barn."</div>
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Gladys Hasty Carroll</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-12905865520995214592014-09-14T18:37:00.001-07:002014-09-14T18:37:43.162-07:003rd Birthday<div style="text-align: center;">
It was a monster truck bash,</div>
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and it had to be green!</div>
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That's what my 3 year old</div>
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grandson wanted!</div>
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He drove the truck up and down the frosting hill</div>
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and that made him very happy:) </div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-89966181802029976372014-09-02T19:52:00.001-07:002014-09-02T19:52:33.479-07:00August (A Little Late)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"August is hot. Opulent, tired, thirsty, hot...</div>
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She asks no questions about the purpose of life,</div>
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is heavy with answers as a cow with milk</div>
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coming up the pasture lane at days end.</div>
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A child is to play and get into mischief</div>
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and do his chores and eat and sleep and grow...</div>
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August is the meeting place of the currents of the year.</div>
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She feels the meeting within her,</div>
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the waters from many directions </div>
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surging into a mighty eddy;</div>
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but she is not shaken by it, </div>
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encompasses it calmly</div>
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as she carried her children to full term </div>
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despite their struggles to find a way out</div>
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of the pocket in which she held them</div>
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until it was time for them to go.</div>
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She is even faintly amused by the surging</div>
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and eddying as she was by the struggles of her unborn."</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-80229231055667531272014-08-28T10:12:00.000-07:002014-08-28T10:12:06.466-07:00Outfit for a Little Lass<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This coat and bloomers was made</div>
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for a very special little lady</div>
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Juniper Kate</div>
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who was born on her </div>
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The coat is called a Brunch Coat</div>
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and the fabric was one I was saving for</div>
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some special project.</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-7064307385033068712014-08-21T20:15:00.001-07:002014-08-21T20:15:53.997-07:00One Year Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Beckham's</div>
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one year birthday!</div>
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I did a Camping Theme</div>
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With a tent and campfire cake...</div>
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The cutest bear ever for the don't feed the bears sign...</div>
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Lanterns, sticks and pinecones.</div>
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he requested a fork and carefully</div>
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ate one forkful at a time!</div>
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His older brother however put his whole</div>
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face on top of a s'more bar</div>
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and had marsh mallows stuck to his face:)</div>
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"July is the beginning of the year's prime of life...</div>
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The long days roll by on greased axles,</div>
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laden with tall grass, new-cut and drying in the sun,</div>
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the corn knee-high and ready for hoeing,</div>
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potatoes, squashes and pumpkins in bloom,</div>
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sweet peas climbing up chicken wire to cover the shed wall</div>
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with pink, white, red and lavender,</div>
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pond lilies starring every spring-fed pool of water</div>
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The nights are short and the dark is thin and soft,</div>
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a-twinkle with fireflies,</div>
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heavy with the heat of the sun </div>
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which has scarcely gone down</div>
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when the east begins to brighten,</div>
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and rich with the smell of fruit and flowers and swamp</div>
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and the sea on the other side of the mountain."</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-89649811777980119502014-07-14T16:35:00.000-07:002014-07-14T16:35:09.593-07:00Porch #1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This is my front porch...</div>
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or is it the back porch...</div>
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maybe it is actually the side porch!</div>
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Anyway it is where I walk in when I</div>
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park my car:)</div>
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I just love a porch.</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-64914527613250448642014-07-07T09:49:00.000-07:002014-07-07T09:49:10.536-07:00New Look in the Booth<div style="text-align: center;">
I've been working hard to get </div>
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a lot of new items into my booth</div>
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at Rusty.</div>
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It was a super fun way to create</div>
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and I love the little bit country,</div>
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little bit rock and roll:)</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-67338878525025174582014-07-02T17:17:00.001-07:002014-07-03T17:11:50.405-07:00Chairs with a Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I was asked by a lovely young bride to redo the seats</div>
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her first apartment with her groom.</div>
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The chairs had been in her parents attic.</div>
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So I took off the old seats, tightened the rickety</div>
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spindles and legs and recovered them.</div>
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I used a monogram that she had on her wedding invite</div>
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and put that on the seat.</div>
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When the brides mom saw them she told how</div>
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once upon a time when she was getting married</div>
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she and her groom found these chairs </div>
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at a garage sale and proudly brought them</div>
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to their very first apartment.</div>
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They didn't mind that they were a little bedraggled</div>
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because they were THEIRS!</div>
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Isn't that the neatest thing?</div>
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I'm so glad I got to be part of the story...</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-9662801883542475212014-06-27T20:09:00.001-07:002014-06-27T20:09:48.289-07:00New Projects<div style="text-align: center;">
I have been very inspired lately</div>
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by ideas for my booth.</div>
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Not sure if the customers will be as</div>
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excited as I am...</div>
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This was a very ugly canvas of a flower</div>
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that I got at a sale.</div>
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Loved painting over it and starting fresh with</div>
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The horse is an American Girls size</div>
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but I painted it and glittered and glammed it up!</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-84752082944030257242014-06-20T18:50:00.000-07:002014-06-20T18:50:53.420-07:00Prairie Aprons<div style="text-align: center;">
I am in love with my new apron designs!</div>
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The one above I used a vintage napkin for the </div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-21099783839706206522014-06-18T08:28:00.001-07:002014-06-18T08:28:55.939-07:00June<div style="text-align: center;">
"All the smells of winter are washed away </div>
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by the flood tide of the perfumes of June--</div>
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an incomparable blend of a thousand flowers</div>
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caressed by the sun, </div>
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of fruit springing from bud in the orchard,</div>
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of roots thickening in loose, rich soil, </div>
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of sea turn, swamp mist, running brooks,</div>
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birch and pine. </div>
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The outdoors comes in and there is no indoors...</div>
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Small children, barefoot, roam at will,</div>
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wading brooks, peering into muskrat holes,</div>
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feeding small birds in the hollows of trees, </div>
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following woods trails, digging sand banks. </div>
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Women's fingers are pink-stained at night</div>
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from the picking and hulling</div>
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which bring strawberry short-cake to the table."</div>
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Gladys Hasty Carroll</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-8911202190964473352014-06-17T09:39:00.000-07:002014-06-17T09:39:05.590-07:00Iconic in Turquoise<div style="text-align: center;">
I beg pardon y'all if I offend the purists</div>
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on this post;)</div>
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I bought an old pair of cowboy boots...</div>
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very cheap and too big for me</div>
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But I really "needed" a Turquoise pair, </div>
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not to wear but to display in my bedroom.</div>
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So out came my Annie Sloan chalk paint</div>
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and now they have pride of place in my room!</div>
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Now I really wish they did fit!</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-64291600478569594472014-06-10T15:29:00.001-07:002014-06-10T15:29:25.094-07:009 Months and Stolen My Heart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We call him Beckham boy...</div>
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and he is the snuggliest, most expressive</div>
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little munchkin!</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-29442754990741655172014-05-31T22:45:00.000-07:002014-05-31T22:45:42.817-07:00How Many Miracles?<div style="text-align: center;">
How many miracles can we ask God for? </div>
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Is there a limit to His mercy</div>
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and His grace?</div>
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If we ask do we expect to receive what</div>
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our minds think is best or what God thinks is best?</div>
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These are the questions I have been thinking</div>
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a lot about in the past few months and </div>
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especially tonight as our church</div>
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faces another night of prayer.</div>
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Our Pastor has gone into surgery</div>
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for a liver transplant...and we wait</div>
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with anxious hearts and prayers for </div>
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just one more miracle!</div>
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In his family we have prayed for a </div>
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miracle of release from drug addiction</div>
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and his son has been clean over 2 years...</div>
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in his family we prayed for his other son</div>
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to survive leukemia, pancreatitis,</div>
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pain med withdrawal, broken tibia,</div>
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ongoing healing...</div>
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He has made it 2 years in remission despite</div>
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all the complications.</div>
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For our pastor we prayed that his liver cancer </div>
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would be healed,</div>
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and tonight he gets a new liver...</div>
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if God wills it to be so and all goes well.</div>
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How many miracles can we ask for</div>
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in one family? </div>
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I don't know-- but what I<b> do</b> know is that there</div>
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are no limits set for us in His Word.</div>
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He makes it plain that we ought to pray and</div>
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ask without ceasing, with faith and in His will.</div>
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We should pray even if our faith is as small </div>
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as a mustard seed and He will do</div>
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as we ask...according to His will.</div>
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So tonight I ask He who knows best for</div>
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just one MORE miracle,</div>
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for this family that I have come to know </div>
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and love in such a special way.</div>
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I love you Pastor H and Family</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-71844629605911428152014-05-20T08:47:00.001-07:002014-05-20T08:47:44.152-07:00May<div style="text-align: center;">
"May is the tender promise we know will come true.</div>
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If in the earlier months any of us has doubted that</div>
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God loves his children, every one, we doubt no longer.</div>
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The sun has come back and rises north of the mountain,</div>
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gently flooding the windows of the east chamber</div>
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as it comes up, and casting a soft light</div>
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on the brown kitchen wall</div>
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behind the supper table as it goes down.</div>
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The grass is green and growing and the cattle are out.</div>
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One night at milking time a </div>
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new calf is brought up from the pasture.</div>
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The seed is in and the long rows of twin leaves rise from the earth.</div>
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The apple trees are in rosy bloom, the blossoms of </div>
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wild pear and cherry like white torches </div>
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against the dark woods and the stone wall.</div>
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Day and night the air is bright and sweet </div>
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with the scent of budding fruit, </div>
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the flash of wings, and the song</div>
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of birds building nests among the flowers.</div>
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The whistle of the whippoorwill is a bugle call to summer."</div>
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Gladys Hasty Carroll</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-30370222770969828052014-05-15T15:25:00.002-07:002014-05-15T15:25:53.589-07:002 Years<div style="text-align: center;">
Today was a hard day-<b>again.</b></div>
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It was Logan's funeral day.</div>
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And it is a day that stands alone in the halls</div>
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of pain in my own life.</div>
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2 years ago today my husband left for rehab</div>
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in CA and from that point on we have </div>
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been separated.</div>
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He chose to live in bondage to a substance</div>
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and I chose to remove myself from the daily pain</div>
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and chaos that had been my life for 10 years</div>
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before that day.</div>
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This was before...trying so hard to make life</div>
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better and easier so he could maintain</div>
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sobriety and live a happy life.</div>
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This is now...living alone and trying so hard to make </div>
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life better and easier for myself</div>
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so I can maintain joy filled, godly living</div>
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and be content.</div>
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Did I make the right decision?</div>
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Did I do enough?</div>
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Do I know what the future holds?</div>
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Will addiction rob me and my children of </div>
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the man we all love?</div>
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These are the hard and unanswerable questions</div>
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that I face each and every day.</div>
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When I think I am okay and things are better</div>
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then something comes along that brings it</div>
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all into sharp focus again and I realize</div>
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afresh that the pain still hurts just as much,</div>
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the tears are just as bitter</div>
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and the wound still is not healed.</div>
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But...</div>
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Gods faithfulness and grace meets me</div>
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every day fresh and real,</div>
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His love tenderly pours the Balm of Gilead</div>
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into my wounded heart and it IS enough</div>
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to face each day, not the future with</div>
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it's fears and sorrows, but for today.</div>
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I will trust that He who says He came to bring </div>
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life abundant means what He says!</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-86569854898199290712014-05-11T15:43:00.000-07:002014-05-11T15:43:59.573-07:00Silent Sorrow<div style="text-align: center;">
This is an extremely difficult subject</div>
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that I am addressing in this post.</div>
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My heart is full of tears.</div>
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Another dear and precious friend lost</div>
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her 24 year old son this week-</div>
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but he did not go from joy to joy.</div>
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He was on a silent and sorrowful path and </div>
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it ended in a silent and sorrowful </div>
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passing-suicide.</div>
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The reason I know this friend in such </div>
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a deep and personal way was that we</div>
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share the terrible path of watching someone we love</div>
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fall ever further into addiction.</div>
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I tried to walk the journey along side her as they tried </div>
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to save him from the slide downwards.</div>
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There were many times that I hugged her</div>
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and felt her shaking with tears and many</div>
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times she hugged me and let me cry.</div>
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We didn't do things the same, it was her son </div>
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and I am dealing with a spouse, but we</div>
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understood how the other felt, the fear</div>
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and the pain and the anger and the rage and </div>
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the fierce love and the aching misery.</div>
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We walked silently together many times in sorrow.</div>
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I look back and think was there ANYTHING I could have</div>
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done differently or better to help him,</div>
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but it never pays to look back unless we</div>
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can learn from it in some way.</div>
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This is what I know-</div>
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<b>Logan believed in Jesus</b></div>
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<b>he was in terrible bondage to a substance</b></div>
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<b>he couldn't bear the pain</b></div>
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<b>he is Home.</b></div>
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Beyond that I cannot say anything that</div>
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I know for sure.</div>
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And when I saw her that terrible morning</div>
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not one word came from my mouth,</div>
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I could only sit by her and hold her hand </div>
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and weep in silent sorrow.</div>
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I love you family of Logan</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-83029330989724918102014-05-06T15:54:00.003-07:002014-05-06T15:54:42.454-07:00From Joy to Joy<div style="text-align: center;">
It has been a difficult week to find</div>
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the words or interest to write anything here.</div>
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My dear friend, since my single days,</div>
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lost her first grand child</div>
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in a tragic farming accident.</div>
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Her daughter posts at </div>
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<a href="http://whispersofjoy.com/">Whispers of Joy</a></div>
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He was 5.</div>
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His life was joy,</div>
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each day was full of all the special</div>
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delights of childhood.</div>
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He didn't get a terrible sickness</div>
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that brought him to this place.</div>
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He simply went from joy here</div>
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to joy there.</div>
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That is not the way it feels,</div>
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the pain all who love him feel</div>
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is incomprehensible.</div>
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But for him he never had to know</div>
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that life is hard and people hurt you </div>
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and loved ones don't love Jesus,</div>
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and the world can be a bad and scary place.</div>
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He just passed from joy</div>
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to JOY.</div>
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and that is amazing.</div>
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I love you, family of Skyler.</div>
Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-41869836983415454232014-04-17T22:28:00.000-07:002014-04-17T22:28:45.841-07:00Holy Week 2014<div style="text-align: center;">
This year I have been reading through </div>
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the Bible in Chronological order-</div>
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amazing and eye opening!</div>
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At the start of this Holy Week</div>
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leading up to that most glorious event</div>
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Resurrection Sunday,</div>
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I had been stumbling along through</div>
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the prophet Zechariah, feeling depressed</div>
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by the dire warnings and the heedless</div>
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captive Jews. </div>
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Then right in the middle of this a verse leapt off</div>
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the page and brought an instant surge of tears.</div>
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""then they will look on Me whom they pierced. </div>
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Yes, they will mourn for him</div>
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as one mourns for his only son, </div>
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and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn."</div>
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And then a few verses later</div>
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"In that day a fountain shall be opened for...sin </div>
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and for uncleanness. "</div>
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And then </div>
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"And one shall say unto him, </div>
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what are these wounds in thine hands?</div>
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then shall he answer,</div>
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those with which I was wounded</div>
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in the house of my friends."</div>
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I bow the knees of my heart and worship</div>
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the One whom my soul loves</div>
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and who gave His all in the </div>
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"house of His friends"</div>
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that I might look on Him who I pierced</div>
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and be cleansed in that Fountain</div>
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from all my sin and uncleanness.</div>
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Out in the Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451967048457867296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007809556243900229.post-34226170439898210202014-04-14T09:38:00.002-07:002014-04-14T09:38:52.749-07:00April<div style="text-align: center;">
"April is the two-week-old kitten, the </div>
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month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer,</div>
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the two-year-old girl.</div>
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Too young to know it has either past or future,<br />
it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present<br />
as part of itself--a crisp bowknot<br />
of iridescent taffeta changing with the colors of the sky</div>
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from the pale pink of dawn<br />
to the pale blue of noon<br />
and the dusty rose of sunset.</div>
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It dances on legs too unsteady to support it,<br />
but they are unaffected by the pull of gravity<br />
and touch the feathery pillow of the earth<br />
only to spring away."<br />
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Gladys Hasty Carroll<br />
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