Hi I'm Heather
Hi I'm Heather

Come stroll the trails with me on our 44 acre Midwest horse farm where I seek God in the ordinary and always find Him--the Extraordinary--wooing, teaching, wowing me with Himself. Thanks for visiting. I hope you will be blessed!

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Sure as Mother’s Day

Some things in life are sure things. Like Mother’s Day. I don’t know when the day was set aside to honor our mothers but I know it has been around ever since my mother labored with me for hours on August 2, 1959.  At 5:40 P.M. at Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren, Ohio all 9 pounds […]

No Narrow Mercies

Leslie Leyland Fields is a direct and quick answer to my specific prayer this time last spring.  I was stuck.  I felt a strong call to write more than a blog but I needed help.  Miraculously, I found Leslie.  Since then, I’ve read her books and columns, spent a week on her Alaskan fish camp island improving my writing skills, and am still learning […]

Opossums, Voles, and Easter Bunnies

Tuesday after Easter.  Just another day.  But I have resurrection from the dead and salvation on my mind, more than on a usual day.  You know the after-effects of post-holiday, when life settles down to normal, whatever “normal” is?  And I can’t get that tiny creature held in my hand on Easter Sunday out of […]

Ashes

Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down . . . We sang it for fun, way back when I was young.  Didn’t know the meaning.  Still don’t.  Urban legend says it’s about people dying horrible deaths during the Black Plague that swept through Europe long ago.  But […]