by Deb Farris | Jan 4, 2023 | Devotions, Haiku, Nature
He flings veils across The year to come and tosses Shadows across the Past. We learn to stand With grace in between, like trees Absorbing the...
by Deb Farris | Dec 31, 2022 | Faith, Musings
“Look!” I said to Todd as I stopped at our dining room table that rarely looks uncluttered (like my head). But with a Centerpiece like this, who notices?! “Can you believe that tall stalk and those beautiful blooms grew from that ugly little bulb?!” “Oh, I know,” he...
by Deb Farris | Dec 28, 2022 | Devotions, Poetry
Different moods of water float with ease through broken ice. Let our moods too. As water is drawn through rocky shores toward sandy beaches, may we be drawn to? What is love that it should shine through the dark nights of our souls? What is darkness that it should...
by Deb Farris | Dec 24, 2022 | Advent, Devotions, Faith, Family, Writing
Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27 We had been to a Christmas Eve service together—my husband, son and his wife—that year. It had left us wanting more, or less, as the case may have been. It was 2019, they had gone to church for me. The music had been a...
by Deb Farris | Dec 23, 2022 | Advent, Devotions
“What was so special about your wife?” Dr. Marsha Fieldstone asked Sam. “How long is your program?” Sam asked Dr. Marsha Fieldstone. “There were a million tiny things…” “How did it happen?” “I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. I was...