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Earlier today, I began pulling out our Seder piece

Earlier today, I began pulling out our Seder pieces for this week. Do you have a favorite messianic Haggadah?
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Pied Beauty By Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to

Pied Beauty

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

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Today’s #kellsfellowship recollection. There is

Today’s #kellsfellowship recollection. There is a great kindness of spirit, humble heartedness, and iron willed adherence to duty that is rare to find now but it truly defined the Greatest Generation. My Papaw was one of those remarkable people of that membership.
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His was a quiet demeanor, but when he had something to say it was always real and true. He was full of the kind of wisdom that comes from a life lived with skin browned by the sun, body strengthened by honest but hard work, nails with fresh dirt crowding old dirt underneath, and the humbleness of gratitude for what he had and what he had been able to give.
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I can remember sitting on the old, brown shag carpet at his feet while he rocked in the cane bottom rocker that had the tiniest creak every time it went back. He’d sit there in his dark blue overalls, holding his brown leather Bible in his lap and the pages would crinkle softly as he turned them. In the tender way he held that Bible in his rough and scarred hands, you were left with no doubt that it was a precious treasure to him.
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There was never a need in his neighborhood but he wasn’t there helping as long as he was able. He kept his garden, small but so very fruitful, immaculately. He had a quiet pride in doing things well, but he was never proud. .
I didn’t know how much I had learned from him until after he was gone. Isn’t it funny, in a wistful sort of way, how we can look back and see how our hearts and habits were influenced by those we love who loved us so well that even the memories are like a warm hug against a scruffy cheek that smells faintly of Old Spice and peppermint sticks?
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I think perhaps the missing never gives up that exquisite pain of grief - but over the years, that pain becomes a glorious bloom bursting open with a beautiful memory that had been lost. And those are the flowers that make looking back over the meadows of our lives so very lovely. I’m so grateful for this ramble of remembrance today. Thank you, @sarahwanders for building this community where we can share 💖.
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One of the things we’ve wanted to do as a family

One of the things we’ve wanted to do as a family for a long time is to truly celebrate Shabbat. We are using the book The Feasts of Adonai, Why Christians Should Look at the Biblical Feasts to guide us.
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In this particular season, with limited resources, it won’t be perfect- but with my husband home it gives us the chance to make this our normal family rhythm. And for that, I am so thankful.
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How does your family celebrate the seventh day to keep it holy?
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Have you played Suspend? It’s one of our favorit

Have you played Suspend? It’s one of our favorites and always includes lots of laughs and funny faces 😂.
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Tell me something that brought you joy today, friend!
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Anchors are important. And one of our daily anchor

Anchors are important. And one of our daily anchors is reading aloud and reading together. It’s extra special when we all snuggle onto the couch in my office (there is white carpet so the boys don’t get to come in without supervision 😂 and it’s the only couch).
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As we are navigating this new territory of staying in, I encourage you to find anchors for you and to create or reinforce the anchors of your children. These are lifelines of normalcy and comfort.
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And if you’re wondering what read aloud has the complete, total, undivided attention of my active boys and keeps them asking for “one more chapter, please?!?”- it’s The Wingfeather Saga from @andrewpetersonmusic.
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Share your daily anchors here so we can all glean new ideas and encouragement!
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There is a certain comfort in the act of carrying

There is a certain comfort in the act of carrying on. An underlying heartbeat of daily rhythms that comforts us the way a mother’s heartbeat comforts the infant lying contentedly on her chest.
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And so we learn, we cook, we craft, we turn on our fairy lights, we read, we do laundry. We learn again to love not only the things that must be done, but the slowing of our lives to a quiet and gentle procession of doing, loving, hoping, praying- and living.
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In this time filled to the brim with possibilities of all kinds, perhaps the bravest thing we can do is to choose to be intentional with the abundance of time we’ve been gifted with the ones we love most.
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May the Lord bless you and keep you and yours 💖.
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The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge is one of m

The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge is one of my favorite books. This quote grabbed ahold of me the first time I read it and has never let go. And I find myself praying these prayers often.
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In the midst of a rather quiet and somber chaos, t

In the midst of a rather quiet and somber chaos, today’s #kellsfellowship prompt is about what love looks like.
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So here is a behind the scenes moment of my very dyslexic boy reading to his younger brother- who is actually the stronger reader of the two- because the youngest looks up to his big brother and lavishes him in love and the adoration that only a younger sibling can bestow.
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And these moments, precious and in between typical sibling bickering, are such a beautiful example of what love means to me. It is grace, mercy, encouragement, enjoyment, and that bit of ourselves that truly reflects the immense love of Christ and puts others before ourselves. It is the faith of a child, made concrete and impenetrable, through an act of love that makes his beloved brother feel a bit more like the incredible man he is becoming in spite of the challenges he must face.
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It really is true, friend- loving others really is our greatest act of faith.
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