Lavender and Laughter

Life is too short to drink tea out of a plastic cup....I created this blog to pour the lavender and laughter of my life into yours.

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I am complicated and I am a Marshwiggle (like Puddleglum from Lewis' The Silver Chair). Personality tests don't work on me. I yearn to see Jesus face to face, and to see the love in His eyes. I am learning to walk on water and to be a new person in Christ. I am in love with my husband and baby, and I love the smell of coffee and lavender mixed together.

Friday, September 30, 2005

Autumn

I miss Michigan so much in the fall. So I am posting one of my favorite poems in memory of Michigan's beautiful fall trees!

Autumn
Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on,
Muted yet fiery, --Autumn's character.
Brown as a monk yet flaring as a whore,
And in the distance blue as Raphael's robe
Tender around the Virgin.
Blue the smoke
Drifting across brown woods; but in the garden
Maples are garish, and surprising leaves
Make sudden fires with sudden crests of flame
Where the sun hits them; in the deep-cut leaf
Of peony, like a medieval axe
Of rusty iron; fervour of azalea
Whose dying days repeat her June of flower;
In Sargent's cherry, upright as a torch
Till ravelled sideways by the wind to stream
Disorderly, and strew the mint of sparks
In coins of pointed metal, cooling down;
And that true child of Fall, whose morbid fruit
Ripens, with walnuts, only in November,
The Medlar lying brown across the thatch;
Rough elbows of rough branches, russet fruit
So blet it's worth no more than sleepy pear,
But in its motley pink and yellow leaf
A harlequin that some may overlook
Nor ever think to break and set within
A vase of bronze against a wall of oak,
With Red-hot Poker, Autumn's final torch.
Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962

Thursday, September 29, 2005

On Lavender and Laughter

This is new for me...and it'll be short. I have been sitting at my desk at work trying to come up with a good title for the last hour. So, you must wonder why I would choose Lavender and Laughter. These two things represent the good side of me--the side that I hope to be when I am like Jesus. It's the part of me that just peeks out from time to time, and that catches my breath...because when I see it, I know that is the beautiful person God created me to be. Lavender gives off a fresh aroma that makes one feel alive and lovely. Laughter is passionate and forgets fear--even if for a moment.