Woodstone Prairie

… it’s Christmas Eve.
 All the planning and preparation is finished. The gifts are finished, wrapped and hidden away. The ham is ready to put in the oven for our dinner later today, and I’ve got a little time to rest and reflect.
It’s really been a lovely December…
I was apprehensive heading into the holiday season… we’ve [...]

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I got the most wonderful Christmas present from my friend L, the other day.
She brought it over to the house on Monday, and her timing was absolutely perfect…
It’s a prayer quilt.

Isn’t it beautiful?
It was pieced by a sweet 90 year old woman at L’s church, then L tied the quilt… and with each tie she [...]

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R has always had a big heart. Not just regular big, her heart is BIG.
She has a special place in her heart for horses and other animals, of course, and this caring leads her to want to fill our barn and house with animals that need her. But she also feels very deeply for the homeless [...]

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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
                                      ~Carl Gustav Jung
                                                                        (Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical              psychology)
 

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… even just a localized one.
Say at about 39.5 degrees latitude and -104.7 longitude (yes, that’s roughly where you’ll find Woodstone Prairie).
I was thinking that 2′ of snow should be just about right. But then I felt badly praying for something that would inconvenience so many people, so I starting wondering about a localized storm. God could [...]

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We finally had our first real snow this past weekend. We’ve had a couple of the fine, light, barely-stick-to-the-ground kinds of snows… but those hardly even count as snow.
This weekend’s storm was a good one… a snow blowing sideways, drifts (almost) up to your knees, wind howling down the chimney, barn door frozen [...]

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