by Deb Farris | Dec 2, 2017 | Greater Good, Musings
I had an article due for our newsletter on Friday and I didn’t make my deadline. We went with something else. I thought I had a good subject, the Journey of Joy—huh. After many rewrites, I began to feel like I had no idea what joy is. The more I thought about it and...
by Deb Farris | Nov 25, 2017 | Musings
I wait as she rises from the darkness at dawn, shaking off night’s debris. She never forces her way in, she has traveled the distance and knows steadiness. She seems to sense that I can only take her presence in slowly, sometimes imperceptibly, until she can crack the...
by Deb Farris | Nov 23, 2017 | Greater Good, Musings
I can tell Thanksgiving is going to be a beautiful clear day here in Milwaukee. A little chilly but warmer than it’s been so I slip on my son’s hoodie that he left behind last time he was here, and layer on my dad’s flannel-lined jean jacket to take...
by Deb Farris | Nov 21, 2017 | Musings
I stopped to pick up a prescription at CVS after work tonight. That went well. Dan at the pharmacy is nice. Or I can at least humor him into a smile. Okay, can I ask you? Does your scalp itch? Is it my age or the hard water or dry heat? What the heck? Anyway, I...
by Deb Farris | Nov 21, 2017 | Greater Good, Musings
The tree limbs and branches sprawl and spread across the floating balloon of a sun. Light pushes through, taking center stage with brilliance. Place your candle on the table. Reveal its flickering flame. Even the wick’s embers, smoldering, glow. Its beauty, but...
by Deb Farris | Nov 12, 2017 | Musings
We hear the music of laughter, we hear rumblings of applause. We hear the shouting and rampage, we hear incessant banter. Only God hears the silent cry. Is it our disagreements over religion that offer solution to a longing heart or the silent cry to God believing...
by Deb Farris | Nov 11, 2017 | Greater Good, Musings
It was her tone. Her tone on the voicemail went right through me. Her words would roll off (or I would try to let them). They weren’t a big deal. I mean, they were to her, so they mattered to me. She was upset about the way her envelope had been addressed. In the...
by Deb Farris | Nov 10, 2017 | Devotions
The day’s begun, I bow my head, and whisper words beneath the sun. Bring power and majesty to this earth so that within all life there is rebirth. I will not doubt Your Presence, still; but lift my eyes up to the hill. Send down Your grace and teach me love....
by Deb Farris | Nov 4, 2017 | Musings
Just as the whiff of lavender wafted through the air of my bedroom a year ago this week—and I was certain it was her—my mother’s essence had enveloped me as I sat reading the Creation story. In seven days, what was unseen became seen. At the end of Mom’s last...
by Deb Farris | Oct 25, 2017 | Musings
I was out of town for five days so I was skeptical about opening the refrigerator tonight. After I started defrosting some chicken breasts and put a pan of rice on the stove, the multi-colored carrots caught my eye in the fruit drawer—purple and yellow carrots....
