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In Due Season

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” ~ Galatians 6:9 I’m fascinated by how plants develop without me ever seeing the buds forming or the stems growing. I’m fascinated by how a green banana can ripen to a yellow color in a matter of days, yet I never see the actual pigments changing. Growth is a process, but rarely do we see it happening; we often just see the results. And if the results aren’t happening fast enough, we get frustrated. Tending to plants reminds me to simply be Read More

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Where’s my package?!

I ordered a package in December via Amazon.com. The estimated arrival date was December 22nd-28th. Unfortunately, the package was coming from New York; and as you know, the east coast got slapped with ridiculous snow storms during the last weeks of December. So the package didn’t actually make it to FedEx until December 28th. FedEx didn’t bother trying to deliver it before this week because they apparently had too much to handle. They guaranteed me yesterday that it would be delivered today. I checked the FedEx website’s tracking function, only to discover that the most recent update was from 10:13 Read More