despite the awesome
worshiping
snowman
in the yard
i'm ready for
spring
i hiked up the
slippery slushy
north-facing slope
to the top of the mountain
today
looking for signs
and
the snow had
melted there!
but
the wet leaves
carpeting the ridge
smelled like fall....
sigh
and the forsythia
aren't even whispering
about buds or balmy weather
thankfully it's
1000 gifts day
and
gratefulness serves
to remedy disappointment
so....
for these i am thankful:
30. martin luther king, jr.
31. chocolate chip cookie dough (from scratch)
32. my husband, chris, who makes me laugh every day
33. church
34. filling up
35. pouring out
36. my girl, the one i mentor, saying, "i want to get better." <3
37. god at work in the hearts of hank and jack (my boys)
38. toasti-toes
linking up with ann voskamp for 1000 gifts and jen for soli deo gloria sisterhood:
Me too Kendal...longing for spring
ReplyDeleteI finally felt the sun today (it's been near a week) and I just stood there, arms outstretched, literally soaking it up. My girls and other passer-byers must have thought I was crazy, but I wasn't going to miss a single drop.
ReplyDeleteLove the "God at work with Hank and Jack" and I love their names!
The best snowman I've ever seen!!!! LOVE IT. Me too, need to see Spring soon. Trying hard not to wish away this season but it's difficult not to.
ReplyDeleteyou are so awesome! i love all of this! and your thanks...yeah, the bigs and the littles...i love it all...
ReplyDeletei'm hitting winter doldrums in Florida. in Florida??!! and i think, 'oh honey, remember STINT in Hungary...6 months of winter and short days...' we'll see what i write then but it will NEED to include thanks!!
Great snowman :) Dont you just love this NC wishy washy winter.
ReplyDeleteIt's been in the upper 50s here and I'm just hoping, hoping, hoping for spring to make a break. Then again, I'm heading to NY in March, so that might send me back into winter all over again.
ReplyDeleteI love the "I want to get better." It always seems that initial "want" is the biggest thing, right?
Oh, NC is as wishy-washy as TX?? LOVE the snowman, the poem, all of it!
ReplyDeleteUm, that could be the second best snowman I've ever seen (First place goes to myself and my daughter for making a snowman-styled Taylor Swift in a bikini). Admit it, that's a pretty good idea too.
ReplyDeleteSpring seems a bit far away right now! But it will come... :-)
ReplyDeleteM.
Lovely poem :)
ReplyDeletei dunno i like the smell of fall...but yes spring when it gets here...with new life, will be a glorious time...nice one shot...
ReplyDeleteI love your line of the forsythia's silence.
ReplyDeleteWinter comes and goes here. I like the look of it, but not its feel.
"Gratefulness serves to remedy disappointment"
ReplyDeleteThis was the jewel, Kendra. Thanks for sharing it in the jam. Your words open so much encouragement.
Dear Kendal
ReplyDeleteIts beautiful I enjoyed it.
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
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I came over from Critty Joy's as of late, and want to say that I love this free form way of expressing yourself!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful picture of gratitude!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful picture of gratitude!
ReplyDeleteI came over from Critty Joy's as of late, and want to say that I love this free form way of expressing yourself!
ReplyDeleteIt's been in the upper 50s here and I'm just hoping, hoping, hoping for spring to make a break. Then again, I'm heading to NY in March, so that might send me back into winter all over again.
ReplyDeleteI love the "I want to get better." It always seems that initial "want" is the biggest thing, right?
you are so awesome! i love all of this! and your thanks...yeah, the bigs and the littles...i love it all...
ReplyDeletei'm hitting winter doldrums in Florida. in Florida??!! and i think, 'oh honey, remember STINT in Hungary...6 months of winter and short days...' we'll see what i write then but it will NEED to include thanks!!