Bite-Sized Devotions

It’s a tall, deep, wide, magnificent summer.

It’s a verdant, fecund, teeming summer.

It’s a tank top summer, with toasty days we far Pacific Northwesties gulp and slather—

ever grateful, so grateful for its gifts.

Below a few pics from my summertime collection, each with a verse to ponder and stow.

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Four years ago: Randy’s dairy, three miles southeast of us. He called these girls to the barn, and they came. Knew them by name.

Cows, sheep, us.

Ever notice how there’s always someone, something we follow?

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” —John 10:27

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Equilateral. Acute. Obtuse. Oblique.

So many angles.

“Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching . . .”

—Ephesians 4:14

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Opining.

“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD . . .”

—Isaiah 1:18a

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Aspirations.

(Just be yourself, clover.)

“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” —Proverbs 19:21

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Spider bivouac. Waterproof, even.

(You’re looking at a spider’s sheet web after the rain. Keeps that eight-legged boy dry as a camper’s tarp would.)

“For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.”

—Psalm 27:5

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Thanks for stopping by, friends. So glad you’re here.

Watching Nature, Seeing Life: Through His Creation, God Speaks.

P. S. An international bestseller, my award-winning novel Sugar Birds has been acquired by Tyndale House. Now at the printer, the book re-releases in October.

Included in this new edition are the opening pages of its SEQUEL, arriving in May 2024.

Preorder Sugar Birds HERE.