How to Make Granny Soup

Reading Time: 5 minutes

Do you want to know how to make Granny Soup?

โ€œFirst, you put you some hamburger meat in a big olโ€™ pot.”

“Add you in a whole bunch of celeryโ€ฆthatโ€™s the secretโ€ฆlots of celery. Then, you add you in a can of veg all or any vegetables you have leftover. ย Next just put in some water, not too much,โ€ she said, as I watched her wrinkled little hands stir the mixture in the pot.

โ€œWell, how much water, Granny?ย  How much celery? What kind of vegetables and how many,โ€ I asked.

(more…)

Continue ReadingHow to Make Granny Soup

Inspiration of Time and Trees

Reading Time: 3 minutes

It was about 73 degrees outside; sunny with just a whisper of a breeze blowing the whisps of blonde hair across my face that had come loose from my ponytail.ย  I had pulled it up in a hurry to get outside to watch my daughters play. ย My babies, ages 9 and 5, were running back and forth from the horse trough showing me the tadpoles they had caught at the pond with their dad. ย Time blew through the trees in my yard…time and trees.

Their happy squeals echoed through the trees as they played and had their little girl tiffs over who owned the biggest tadpole.ย  Off in the pasture, I heard the little cottonwood tree flutter its leaves in the wind as if all of creation celebrated the glory of God in the beauty of the day.

(more…)

Continue ReadingInspiration of Time and Trees