Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: God, the second title in The Good Portion series.
The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works.
Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 9:17AM 
I’m not sure where this photo was taken, but I like it and wanted to use it for my desktop photo this week. If I remember to find out where this is, I’ll update the post with that info.
Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 7:00AM 
The peach tree on the southern wall
Has basked so long beneath the sun,
Her score of peaches great and small
Bloom rosy, every one.
A peach for brothers, one for each,
A peach for you and a peach for me;
But the biggest, rosiest, downiest peach
For Grandmamma with her tea.
—Christina Rossetti in Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
Hooray! It’s peach season again. Here are my previously posted instructions for putting up peaches.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 6:21PM By father and mother, in the fifth commandment, are meant, not only natural parents,[1] but all superiors in age [2] and gifts;[3] and especially such as, by God’s ordinance, are over us in place of authority, whether in family,[4] church,[5] or commonwealth.[6]