“I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you and set you
as a covenant of the people,
a light to the nations,
To open the eyes of the blind,
to bring out prisoners from confinement,
and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness” Isaiah 42: 6-7You.
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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