here comes the spring!

It’s spring in MA! The ground is thawed and the birds are singing. Listening to the birdsong reminds me of being in Honduras.  There’s a pair of bluebirds living in the birdhouse right in front of Francis House. Royal blue backsides, reddish fronts.  beautiful creatures. 

Trees are pruned and beginning to bud, lettuce has been planted in the greenhouse, garden beds are being turned, mosquitoes are hatching…  We had almost 2 full weeks of over 60-degree weather with sunshine! With a few days of flood-inducing rain in between…

We had 2 college groups here on work trips during that time, so we were able to get a LOT of work done!  My body got really tired the first few days because it wasn’t used to doing that amount of physical work in one day – hasn’t happened since the fall!  We did lots of wood hauling down from the woods.

I can’t wait for everything to be green and colorful – a season I haven’t experienced since I’ve been at Agape!

A 2-woman monastery for a week

At the end of February, Brayton went to Haiti to be with some close friends who are medical missionaries there.  While he was gone, it was just Suzanne and I running the show here: two women, one 64, the other 25, praying together 3 times a day and doing all the daily work to run the place, including hauling wood in for the woodstoves.

Suzanne joked about us being like two nuns at a monastery, especially when she saw me sitting in the chapel with my black sweatshirt hood pulled over my head looking like a habit!  The next day we wore matching purple sweaters (unintentionally, I swear!).

We couldn’t help but see the parallels between that and my sister’s life in Honduras and laugh at how two daughters from the same family ended up where we are today…does that mean our parents did a good job?