My Garden, OR Galatians 5:22-23 NLT But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! My grandma was a stickler for finding every last ripe berry. As a kid, picking berries was pure never-ending misery….

John 8:36 If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. When I first saw this guy, I tried to help him up and over the rail to freedom. He wouldn’t go. Then, I tried to get him to go under the rail. He still wouldn’t go. It seemed the more I tried,…

Deschutes Land Trust, Camp Sherman, OR 1 Corinthians 16:14 GNT Do all your work in love. I have often said, “I don’t have a lot of money, but you can have my time, my hair, and my blood!” Donating my hair to Locks of Love, donating blood, walking for MS or ALS, volunteering at the…

Mt. Rushmore, SD 2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So often we celebrate July 4, 1776, as Independence Day, and forget that a war raged until September 3, 1783. After the Treaty of Paris, what was next for this fledgling…

John 3:17 CSB For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. The Word of God, The Bible, is often referred to as the Good News. Maybe we should call it the BEST News, just because of this verse. So many people associate God…

South Sister, Three Sisters Wilderness, OR Lamentations 3:22-23 GNT The Lord’s unfailing love and mercy still continue, Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise. Today, I wasn’t the best version of myself. I said things I shouldn’t have and didn’t say what I should have said. I left things unfinished and messy. I wished…