by Juli Able | Dec 14, 2024 | Christmas, Stories
I’d like to invite you on a journey. It’s familiar in some ways. But let me caution youas Dallas Willard does in the opening pages of “The Divine Conspiracy”: “Presumed familiarity breeds … unsuspected unfamiliarity, and then contempt.And contempt can lead to profound...
by Juli Able | Oct 25, 2024 | Stories
“This is a God-bathed and God-permeated world.” [i] — Dallas Willard “All the things in this world are created because of God’s love and they become a context of gifts, presented to us so that we can know God more easily and make a return of love more readily.”...
by Juli Able | May 23, 2024 | Stories
Gardening is teaching me to notice the very small. Today, I marvel at a cucumber plant’s thin tendril curled in tiny ringlets around a neighboring pepper cage. Fragile and strong, it’s doing what it can to lift out of dirt and reach toward light. Removing low-lying...
by Juli Able | Mar 6, 2024 | Stories
A sun-speckled, winding road led to a sun-speckled, winding footpath. Our steps, softened by a pine needle carpet, brought us to our destination. It was simply and thoughtfully prepared. There’s not much you can add to a grove of live oaks at the edge of a swampy salt...
by Juli Able | Feb 1, 2024 | Stories
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