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Living the Faith
Three Things My Friends Know About Me
If you read these blogs, you know a little about the things I think about, but you probably don’t know a whole lot about ME. So here’s a post that breaks with my usual content to give you some insider insights. If you were to ask my friends about some of the quirky things I…
Blackberry Season
Once upon a time I made the mistake of giving my dog a blackberry. In order to understand the seriousness of this mistake, you have to understand something about my dog. You see, my dog Marly seems to think that God was talking exclusively to her when He said in Genesis 1:30: “To every beast…
Welcoming the Unexpected
There is a boy singing with the most amazing voice. That isn’t how I was going to begin this blog, but let me tell you, if you were here and could hear his voice, that’s all you’d be able to say too. I wasn’t listening to the intro, so I didn’t catch his name, but…
Swallows
I’m back again. Writing at the Citizen’s Band. I wasn’t going to let you know that. I was going to write about picking blackberries. But now that I’m here, I just can’t help it. Because something unexpected has happened. It’s different. It’s about 90 degrees, even in the sinking sun. People are fanning themselves with…
Anyplace
I am practicing being able to write anyplace. I admire those people who can write anyplace. People like that often say, “If I needed peace and quiet to write I would never get anything written!” I agree. The difference is that they fall into the “manage to get it done” category and I fall into…
Blog by Friday
Earlier this week I had the startling realization that I have not posted a blog in a month. I pledged that I would write a blog by Friday. At the beginning of the week, that seemed so doable. It’s not that I don’t have any ideas. I have lots of ideas. The problem, as I…
The Other Christian
Along one of my favorite hiking trails there is a bench that overlooks a little pond. Sometimes there are swans there. I’ve yet to determine whether they are naturally migrating swans or if they were deposited here, but I often like to pause on my hike and sit to watch them. This past weekend as…
Spring Blooms
I was taking my morning walk this morning as I usually do – with my eyes half shut. Someplace between leaving my front door and returning is where I typically wake up. This morning my point of waking up occurred when I was turning for home and noticed someone standing off the road taking a picture. I…
Speed Reading
At any given moment, I have a stack of at least a dozen books that I am reading concurrently. Some end up taking me months to read; others ensnare me and I finish them in days. But always there is this stack, beckoning me. I listen to books on CD in the car and around…
The Ending of the Easter Story
Jesus the Christ was put to death on Good Friday, but that is not the end of the story. Very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb…And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back – it was very large. And…
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Janet Beagle, PhD is the founder of The Mustard Patch. She divides her time between the Midwest and New England, and if she’s not writing, she’s probably out hiking with her 2-and 4-footed friends.