This picture is a hardy hibiscus I planted last year around this time. It looked amazing until fall and then it died....I thought. The stalks were completely crispy. I left them that way until Spring and when all the other plants were waking up....this one wasn't. For some reason, I didn't dig it up though. I planted some other plants but left that spot empty. I'm not sure why...call it providence. So here we are...in June. I went outside this morning to make my regular plant rounds and what...

Last summer we added an apartment above our garage for a family member. It was quite a major project. We had electric panels redone, plumbing configured, and everything else that goes with new construction.. To configure the plumbing for the apartment, the ground had to be dug down all the way to the existing plumbing from the city main and connect it to the apartment. In that process several ginormous rocks like the one in the picture were dug up. They were placed on the ground until we...

Zephaniah, I find, is a pretty tough book to write about. With lots of verses about God’s judgement, it can seem pretty bleak and harsh. Let’s see if we can dig a little and uncover some insight. The overall theme I see, is God’s desperate want for His people to come back to Him. Chapter 3 begins with a description of where His people are. “…The city that wouldn’t take advice, wouldn’t accept correction, wouldn’t trust God, wouldn’t even get close to her own god! Her very own leaders are...