It must be summer!

It must be summer......everything I pick from the garden seems like a painting to me. On the easel today are red tomatoes, purple and yellow onion....green bowl and an old blue Ball quart jar. This morning's harvest of green beans, cukes, yellow crook neck squash, herbs and lettuce couldn't be put away in the refrigerator until I did a little sketch. You know your hooked on painting when you plant veggies and flowers for the prospect of painting rather than eating. You can do both! Happy summer!

When the home of our own construction crumbles.....when we walk through the mist of confusion and uncertainty and many times, stumble.....that is when we most get in touch with our real home that catches us and shows us the fertile ground to build again. It is our invincible spirit combined with God's gifts of grace that sustain us in extraordinary times and help us rememer our powerful experiences when we return to ordinary time and space. The mist is as much a gift as the bright sunshine.