Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
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How beautiful and how absolutely true. Thank you for the poem and for the picture of the woods. The woods is one of my favourite places and I love to take my grandchildren walking in the woods as it seems that there they like to talk about God. Blessings and prayers.