by [email protected] | May 10, 2018 | Emily Conrad, God in creation, guest post, Linda Thompson, Notes from a Nature Lover, study of Psalms
by Emily ConradThe beauty of the gilded sunset clouds, the soaring freedom of birds, and the turquoise of glacial mountain lakes light me through with wonder and joy.Like the David expresses in the Psalms, I see God at work and signs of who He is in nature.O Lord,...
by [email protected] | Sep 12, 2017 | Emily Conrad, fearfully and wonderfully made, God in creation, You are necessary
by Emily ConradI went to France with a program from my high school. Two other Emilys came, too, and yet another stayed back home. Considering the group couldn’t have been more than twenty of us, that’s a huge percentage of Emilys.A family moved in next...
by [email protected] | Mar 23, 2017 | Emily Conrad, God in creation, God's care for Christians, His eye is on the sparrow, The Secrets of Birch Bark and Pine Cones
by Emily Conrad It started with curls of birch bark, littered on the sidewalk like scrolls of ancient paper. The clean lines on the white bark, like the marks of an exact graphite pencil I could read if only I knew the code. The blushing pink, the feel of it in my...
by [email protected] | Jan 26, 2017 | Emily Conrad, God in creation, Nature from a house in the city, poetry, What nature is trying to tell us
by Emily Conrad The way humans interact with nature is a theme in my reading life right now. Not one I chose to focus on, but one that is deeply imbedded in the books I happened to pick.What does nature mean to me? To you? How do we interact with it? What does it do...
by [email protected] | Oct 5, 2016 | Emily Conrad, Five Minute Friday, Free write, Glory to God, God in creation, Silence, Write 31 Days
The silence here hums.Distant highways and neighborhood dieselsclocks ticking and breathingalwaysone breath after anotherhearts beatingquietly beneath the surfacelike starfish feeling their quiet wayunderwater.The silence here humswith life and all its trappings.Wind...
by [email protected] | Oct 4, 2016 | Brew, Emily Conrad, Five Minute Friday, Free write, God in creation, keeping the faith, Wisconsin travel, Write 31 Days
by Emily ConradFor this post in the 31 Days of Free Writes challenge, I sort of did two free writes, one on topic, and one off. And then I took a bunch of extra time and sort of tacked them together. So, free write one is on the official prompt (brew) and free write...
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