My Place
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
what’s your place like?
The Geese,
Soon Gone.
The Stillness Stays Behind.
Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
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Luke 10:17- 20
The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!” He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
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Words of Grace for Today –
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pulled and pushed my bones and muscles resist
but they must out of the warmth from under a down duvet rise
dawn peeks through the trees
frost covers the grass
the air holds it’s breath waiting
the lake waters exhale fog rising
on the shore a goose honks once, then twice
across the waters the oil processing plant roars dullness
and trucks pound the pavement, as another of their work day begins
smoke rises from the chimney
a four fist size rock sits beside the path, pulled out from where it tipped innumerable loads of wood coming in
My day begins, a pot of water on the wood stove, waiting for heat, an hour until it boils for morning coffee and the day’s thermos of tea.
My ‘place’ awaits another 8 hours of hard labour preparing wood for the winter, repairing and improving systems that keep the cold, the storms, the animals and bugs at bay
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and me alive.
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What’s your place in life?
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Is our place anything other than to rejoice that God has a place for us, in creation, and beyond?