by Marie | animals, Creation, Devotionals, Earth Day, Spring, Such a Moment, Uncategorized
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; 2 for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters. –Psalm 24:1-2, NIV Earth Day is an annual reminder...
by Marie | animals, Death, Devotionals, Faith, Lion, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Such a Moment, Zoo
We visited the zoo on Saturday. My brain kept going back to a Simon and Garfunkel song from my college days, “At the Zoo.” “It’s all happening at the zoo,” the lyrics say. “The monkeys stand for honesty. Giraffes are insincere. And...
by Marie | Creation, Gratitude, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Praise, Such a Moment
Iowa’s not flat, after all. And it’s not all cornfields. Most people who don’t live in the Midwest probably know little more about the state of Iowa than what they saw in the movie Field of Dreams, with its classic exchange: A baseball player asks,...
by Marie | Devotionals, Faith, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Seashells, Secrets, Such a Moment, Truth
Collecting shells at the beach is almost mandatory, especially if you live inland and don’t get to visit the ocean very often. We have jars of shells collected from beaches in Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Florida. We even have a...
by Marie | Blessings, Devotionals, Hope, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Storms, Such a Moment
Who doesn’t love to see a rainbow in the sky? Rainbows are caused, according to Wikipedia, ” by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It...
