Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel,
and as being heirs together of the grace of life;
that your prayers be not hindered.

    — 1 Peter 3:7

One night, there was a big party at our house. We were the hors d’oeuvres stop for our neighborhood’s annual progressive dinner.…

A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

— Ecclesiastes 3:2

I live in a farm state. ‘Course, you’d never know it. I don’t know a tractor from a combine. I’m what they called “Agriculturally Impaired.”

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Is there iniquity in my tongue?
Cannot my taste discern perverse things?

— Job 6:30

In the late afternoon of a very busy day, I realized that it was the birthday of a dear friend and neighbor. I quickly made her a big bouquet of my grandmother’s heirloom blue iris and pink peonies. Ah!

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry;
for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

                                                            — Ecclesiastes 7:9

We were a growing family with three daughters. We needed more space. So we had just bought a bigger house. It was a beautiful, big, wide, ranch-style home. We got a good deal on it,

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So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.

— Genesis 1:27

I’m happiest when I’m down on my sweaty hands and knees, with a dirt moustache . . . gardening.

There’s no other place where the mysteries of life unfold right before your eyes.

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