Friday, August 15, 2014

It smells like Christmas

“Wow! Can you smell that?”,
I exclaimed in the woods.
“It smells like Christmas,
like my birthday,
that time when we got
our own Christmas tree.”
Her response waking memory
a much colder forest
snow knee deep
in the wintry wood.
The fir and balsam
brighter green in summer
the goldenrod, the ragweed
in full bloom.
Exiting the wood lot
coming to the pond,
cattails and wood ducks,
bees all around.

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August 15, 2014
It smells like Christmas

nature walk with Shanequa
on trails behind
Katahdin Middle High School
August 15, 2014
&
Devozine for August 11, 2014 to August 17, 2014
“+ gratitude”
&
Psalm 30:11-12
“Praising God through Tears”
diagnosis of cancer
sadness, confusion but grateful
devotion by Sarah Martindell
for August 15, 2014
read August 15, 2014
&
Proverbs 20:7 (NRSV)
Proverbs 22:9 (NRSV)
“A Life of Blessing”
devotion by Annette Ensz
for August 14, 2014
read August 14, 2014
&
Patten Methodist Youth Group
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME


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