tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67683162807760320492024-02-19T07:21:37.624-05:00Bethel RisingA journal by Beth Covalt
Beth Covalthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080934237142979144noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768316280776032049.post-64351782692349071312020-11-05T10:47:00.001-05:002020-11-05T12:38:08.763-05:00Gold Dust<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.lovelandcoffee.com/" target="_blank">Our favorite local roaster.</a> Personal service where the owner/barista with the coolest name remembers that I like decaf ground for a French press.</div>
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It's where I always feel I've stepped into a Beatrix Potter book. Cats lounge among the irises. Chickens take awkward flight through an old barn. A blacksmith's shop sits among the tomato vines. This is a family affair that operates purely on the honor system. Pick up your produce. Drop your money in the box. Small town in the ever expanding city. And if we hit them at the right time, they invite the kids back to hold a new acquisition or two, a baby goat or gosling. </div>
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Every year we make the short drive minutes from our suburban home to purchase locally grown flowers for the front porch.</div>
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Though a bit of a drive at twenty minutes, Cottle's is worth it, and we pick more than enough to share with the neighbors during our <a href="http://www.awalkalongtheway.com/2013/04/why-hello-april.html" target="_blank">cul de sac evenings</a>.</div>
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Early Sunday morning hours. Combining two of my favorite things, <a href="http://www.lovelandcoffee.com/" target="_blank">coffee </a>and <a href="http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2013/03/17/whi-1145-christs-high-priestly-prayer/" target="_blank">good conversation over the Word</a>, with my least favorite thing makes lighter work. </div>
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Handicrafts by my twelve year old: paracord bracelets and key fobs. (Psstt. He sells these. Interested? Email me.) </div>
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Quiet time and the outdoor hours seem to blend into one. We're taking our cues from our little friends and slowing down, feeling the wind against our cheeks, and breathing in the freedom of sweet days. </div>
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Ah, <a href="http://babar./">Babar.</a> We do love you enough to forgive that one little accusation that hunters are "wicked."<br />
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It's Spring Break for most of the neighborhood, and we've spent hours and hours in the cul de sac with kids weaving in and out on Ripsticks and bikes. Laughter. Play. Mamas and Dads talking and sipping on coffee. This is the sweet stuff of life, folks, and we are knee deep in it, drinking every last drop because we know these days are short. And so we will bottle them up and, one day, unearth them from the deep recesses of time, savor their aroma, and slowly sip the memory of Glory days. I've lived long enough now to get this way of life. And to see it as beautiful.Beth Covalthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080934237142979144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768316280776032049.post-5551954820331956532013-04-03T22:12:00.000-04:002013-04-03T22:24:31.780-04:00City Walks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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March winds are blowing hard in my town, and we are taking to the outdoors in large chunks. The downtown local farmer's market has been a favorite Saturday morning activity the last two weekends. Perfect outdoor time.</div>
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We love this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/North-American-Wildlife-Piece-Memory/dp/B0019K9BD2" target="_blank">North American Wildlife Memory Game</a> that we've had for years. </div>
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Chalk Bark: We ran out of chalk last week. So what do you do when you don't want to run to the store and have a huge tub of Plaster of Paris rotting on the shelf? Naturally you make your own chalk bark. The key to perfect color is to mix the powdered paint with the Plaster of Paris before adding water. Mix together in a shallow pan or container, and spread it thinly so that it will be less than an inch thick. When it hardens, break it into large pieces. This works so much better than molds, and the kids love experimenting with the larger, abnormal shapes. </div>
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I started a DVD Bible study, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chase-DVD-Based-Study-Jennie-Allen/dp/1418549347/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363791213&sr=1-2&keywords=chase+jennie+allen" target="_blank">Chase</a>. Review to come soon.</div>
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The little kids and I have enjoyed reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439323711/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">How Groundhog's Garden Grew</a>. It's great inspiration to get them outside soon for planting. The illustrations are exquisite.</div>
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After three weeks of coughing, fevers, antibiotics, ear infections, and general all around malaise, we were eager to head for the door. One caveat for time in the out of doors with the Faithful Five should be illness.</div>
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When I was a girl, I freely roamed our little piece of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains" target="_blank">Appalachian Mountains</a>. I climbed and hiked and explored and breathed in the earth, air, and water of my ancestors like it was my very life. It flows deep in my veins though with six in tow I rarely get there these days. I had long talks with the beautiful Creator as leaves crunched beneath my feet and the breeze lifted my hair. I firmly believe if this world, as Edwards says, is just a foretaste of heaven that I will not be able to stand in the presence of the original Glory. Glory Himself. It brings tears to my eyes just at the thought of such a great Creator, who would give me a such gracious glimpse of himself. I groan along with all creation, "Come, Lord Jesus. Come."</div>
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This boy of mine has taken to his bike and had exceeded anything I expected and has awed me with his spunk. He rode to the dam, twelve miles from our house. </div>
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These teen years, they aren't perfect, but they are good. And this not because of great parenting but a great Grace.</div>
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Winter finally makes her appearance in the deep South. For ten glorious minutes sleet graced us with her presence. Children, donning the few winter accessories readily available, poured from doors into the ice covered street and scooped up every last scrap of delicious cold to volley at each other. A rainbow perfected the moment.<br />
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When the store bought version became too small (or he grew too tall), he decided to dive head long into making his own ghillie suit. It's a painstakingly tedious process, but there is great reward in crafting.<br />
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All of my children have loved listening to <a href="http://store.barefootbooks.com/the-barefoot-book-of-knights-5.html" target="_blank">The Barefoot Book of Knights.</a> </div>
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I have discovered two things these last two weeks: 1. A Lent Bible plan on YouVersion. With the back light on my phone, it's perfect for that early morning feeding with the baby. 2. The great need to develop a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_hermeneutics" target="_blank">Biblical Hermeneutics</a> class for my children. Teaching them <em>how </em>to study Scripture for themselves is a critical skill they will take with them throughout their lives. I didn't get this until <a href="http://www.ciu.edu/" target="_blank">graduate school</a>. I can't think of anything more valuable to gift them with at an early age.</div>
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Love <a href="http://everybitterthingissweet.com/2013/02/how-to-really-fall-in-love/" target="_blank">these monthly adoration sheets</a> from <a href="http://everybitterthingissweet.com/and-this-is-who-i-am/" target="_blank">Sara at Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet</a>. I tuck it into my Bible and hang it on the wall to remind me of my focus.</div>
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The super easy paper trees perfect for Peter's forest: <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/133559945170725728/" target="_blank">Sweet Paul Holiday 2012 Pinterest board</a></div>
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<a href="http://lifeinlimits.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Audra</a> doesn't know it, but she renamed this weekly post: Faithful Five, not to be confused with the <a href="http://www.kungfupanda.com/" target="_blank">Furious Five</a>.</div>
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So much excitement when the little box from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/36777393/vermont-branch-block-building-set?" target="_blank">Vermont Branch Company</a> arrived. We also listened to a new audio story find at <a href="http://www.sparklestories.com/" target="_blank">Sparkle Stories.</a></div>
Beth Covalthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080934237142979144noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768316280776032049.post-17275752922678434582013-02-01T08:06:00.000-05:002013-02-01T08:06:20.273-05:00Five for Five: Last Week of JanuaryI promise I will get my writing mojo back soon. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Keep repeating...I will write again. I will write again. I will write again.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Loving the Luke study at <a href="http://www.goodmorninggirls.org/" target="_blank">Good Morning Girls</a> via email with some sisters at church. They have some of the best insights and encourage me everyday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Check out <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/" target="_blank">Ginny's</a> blog for great ideas like <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/?s=stamp+glue" target="_blank">this homemade lickable stamp glue</a>. You'll have to heat it up each time since it congeals, but with the almond flavoring, it's hard to stop creating. Makes you ask: what else is gelatin good for?!</span></div>
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Home sick this morning, baby and me, while all others are out fellowshipping. So I snuggle down with good books and great podcasts and break the Bread with brothers and sisters across great expanses of time and space. I fellowship. My soul is nourished and healed and breathes a little easier even if my body does not.<br />
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<a href="http://www.rabbitroom.com/podcasts/" target="_blank">The Rabbit Room Podcasts </a> "The Art of Spiritual Subtext" (Sigh) If you're into books, you'll love the conversation between these two women. <br />
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<a href="http://www.whitehorseinn.org/" target="_blank">The White Horse Inn</a> I'm listening to the series on the Gospel of John. Listen in "Behold the Lamb (part II) for a surprise about Jacob's ladder. Beautiful!<br />
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It started as four. Four things I knew I wanted to take priority every day. The list grew to five when I realized<em> the</em> thing, the most important one of all was left out. Now the Five will guide our days, though I long for them to come into their own organically, slowly, gently. A little here and a little there until a sweet rhythm establishes itself and the five are counted on and eventually longed after. </div>
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1. Time in the Word</div>
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This one has surprised me most of all. The younger ones ask for it, and the sound of their sweet play is lyrical. Sometimes, yes, it is punctuated with a harsh note. But, the general song is, well, music to my ears.</div>
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Nests. They collect themselves all over my home. Sweet little things that find their way into sweeter hands and onto my table. My favorite? The one where the mama bird gathered little bits of this and that, scavenged building materials that she wove together into a home. It requires a gentle hand and an observant eye. </div>
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After reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Elevate-Everyday-Photographic-Picturing-Motherhood/dp/0240821092" target="_blank">Tracey's book</a>, I've been paying closer attention to the bits my older three leave around. No more do they wander into the house carrying little treasures from outside. Instead, they let their own lives drop and scatter wherever they will. And I have been carelessly stepping over the teen years. The boots I trip over. The bags left by the door. Airsoft bullets in cushions. Stickers that mark interests. The details in rooms behind the closed doors (closed only by mandate to guard from tiny hands). There are things that I have ignored as precious. Things and images that one day I will cup tenderly in my palm for the treasures they are. I commit now not to wait until someday.</div>
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Not to be outdone by his brother's compound bow, John took to the woods and made his own. I am amazed at how strong and accurate it is. And, of course, a contest, a battle of the bows is always a given. The handcrafted held its own.<br />
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See the blur out the window? Yeah. That would be the last 15 years.</div>
Beth Covalthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080934237142979144noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768316280776032049.post-86836717162228328702012-10-12T21:51:00.000-04:002015-11-25T20:24:52.816-05:00Now We Are<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just fifteen minutes after posting <a href="http://www.awalkalongtheway.com/2012/10/a-corner.html" target="_blank">this,</a> I stood up to head downstairs to update my husband, and my water broke. Two and half hours later, Gabriel, our sixth, made his grand entrance via water birth into our family, into this wonderful world. All the waiting, the timing, the longing met together in the perfect pitch of a newborn cry and glimpses of gold-red hair and daddy's chin laid upon my chest. So few pictures of those early moments together only three of us, swimming deep in emotion. But then some moments are meant just to be lived, releasing slowly their intense warmth to brand the image into hearts of flesh.<br />
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Even now as he roots around and coos, he melts me in ways I can't, won't ever be able to tap out into words. They've all done that. Undone me. Unraveled my tense, closed off places, leaving a string trail back to these precious times. I take a deep breath of newbornness and know that the scent of heaven, of new birth is all over these days.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nothing elegant or sophisticated. Just a simple, quiet space to call my own, where the kids gather around to play or share their own thoughts or just to pop in for a moment. I hold the moments in this little corner close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dollar composition books are easily transformed with some kraft paper, alphabet rubber stamps, and glue. Simple labeling using typeset stamps graces the covers: the thoughts, <a href="http://www.awalkalongtheway.com/p/in-my-backpack.html" target="_blank">in the library</a>, at the sewing table, <a href="http://www.awalkalongtheway.com/2011/09/hours-small-beginning-to-adoration-in.html" target="_blank">the hours</a>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I'm typing this post through what I hope are some real, lasting contractions. Pray my friends that this baby boy comes soon. Today would just be nice.</span></div>
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My due date has come and gone, and now we wait. We've lived here before in the long wait for new life where the bank account slowly drains but the small moments fill to the brim. With Dad home, time is abundant. And we watch in the waiting and learn how to see, savor, and suck the marrow out of the beauty he bestows on our days. Someday my words will return, and now I am happy to take lessons. To learn the small beginnings of wonder that leads to worship.</div>
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I really should wait until all the painting is finished and make a far bigger deal of this reveal (actually staging it would be nice), but I just couldn't wait to share my husband's latest creation for us. We are loving this desk! And it was so easy (for me watching from across the room in my big comfy chair). <br />
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My crew just won't get on board with calling <a href="http://www.awalkalongtheway.com/2011/03/life-happens-space.html" target="_blank">this space</a> the atelier, a sweet word inspired by <a href="http://playfullearning.net/" target="_blank">Mariah.</a> It just has a certain je ne sais quoi (thank you, one year of high school French). But, sigh, this will always be "the school room." <br />
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A little glimpse at the other side of the room. I love that the Navigator framed the chalk board so that little hands know where to stop with all the creativity. I took a tip from <a href="http://www.tphblog.com/the-study-a-before-after/" target="_blank">Angela </a>on map placement around the thermostat. Oh, and the shameless self-promotion. The outlet will eventually be brown.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Hand crocheted by a friend in Catharine's dance company, <a href="http://scchristiandance.com/dance_radiance" target="_blank">Dance Radiance</a>. She rushed to finish this beauty before heading to London for a dance mission trip. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The wife of my dad's hunting guide in Alaska made these for Daniel when he was born. (though, at the risk of offending some of my readers: they are not <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VgO1lltW04" target="_blank">custom baby seal leather boots</a>. That line gets me every time. No idea why. Call it a sick sense of humor.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">By <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GypsyForest" target="_blank">Gypsy Forest</a>. She is not making these anymore. Someday I may try my hand at making a nature bag like this.</span></div>
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My mission has been to make something, anything each day. A couple of sentences for a new post. A sweet little reading nook for my smaller ones. Or just simply an environment that encourages my older ones to jump in to Glory mirroring. </div>
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Found <a href="http://www.bedifferentactnormal.com/2011/03/how-to-fold-paper-boats.html#more" target="_blank">here</a>. I've become an expert paper boat creator. We've tried <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25462/25462-h/25462-h.htm" target="_blank">this one</a> but haven't quite figured it out. Paper crafts aren't as easy as the instructions may imply. The secret to a dry boat: freezer paper.</div>
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The best kind of found fun in an old box of science bits and pieces: a natural pulley system. I just wish I could remember where I bought this over six years ago.</div>
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I've been wanting to try my hand at one of <a href="http://www.whiteflowerfarmhouse.com/#/products/4559204501/medium-driftwood-sailboat-custom-made/1133166" target="_blank">these</a>, and when the perfect piece of wood (from the mountains and not the beach) found its way into my hands, I couldn't resist giving it a go.</div>
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Triple Berry Cream Cheese Tart recipe from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Family-Cookbook-Anni-Daulter/dp/1416206388/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340636220&sr=8-1&keywords=the+organic+family+cookbook" target="_blank">The Organic Family Cookbook</a> paired with perfect locally grown berries. Mmmmm.</div>
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Dipping my feet into sewing just a bit. Starting easy with pillow covers. After I made a pair of these, I decided I really didn't want to go with orange and blue in the room. </div>
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May you go forth today my friends with joy stained fingers, evidence of the abundant delight trail he leaves us, a way of leading us deeper into who he is.</div>Beth Covalthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080934237142979144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768316280776032049.post-70382911345200675532012-06-13T23:46:00.001-04:002012-06-14T08:49:57.418-04:00Child's Play<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Perfect homemade, naturally dyed playdough from a guest post at <a href="http://www.skiptomylou.org/2010/08/18/using-natural-dye-for-homemade-playdough/" target="_blank">Skip to My Lou</a>. Deliciously rich blueberry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Fantastic idea for sand play from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Play-Your-Baby-Expertise/dp/1856752712/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339645470&sr=8-1&keywords=creative+play+for+your+baby" target="_blank">Creative Play for Your Baby</a>: Y-shaped twigs, toilet paper rolls, and sand.</span></div>
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