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My youngest sister tends to be an “in your face’ sort of person.  She believes that the only path to authenticity is through total revelation of the facts and airing of differences.

I’ve been watching my peonies come up, turn green, and develop buds. Hopefully, they will bloom soon. I have come to love those flowers! Over the years, I have transplanted them and added more. They remind me of past proms and of my children and grandchildren playing near them.

In Acts 4:32-37, we are introduced to a man we know as Barnabas. He is an important character  mentioned throughout the narrative in Acts and in 3 of Paul’s epistles.

“If I never see another rusty nail, it will be too soon!” I said this to Garey after cleaning out a corner in the basement of his mom’s house.  “You need a Tetanus shot just to look at that pile,” I added.  We are still in the throes of the never-ending cleanup that was Garey’s parents’ property.