https://www.manna4caregivers.org/blog daily 0.75 2026-02-20 https://www.manna4caregivers.org/blog/my-souls-weave monthly 0.5 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/a686f44f-9faa-412e-a1e9-8c07deb453d2/UK-Mull-Iona-37.jpg Community Blog - My Soul’s Weave - Make it stand out Drone photography of Isle of Iona, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/6c8a0d2e-18ae-4a03-b986-c00b4ecff418/Blanket_Macro.JPG Community Blog - My Soul’s Weave - Another gift I received from Tina was a speciality macro lens for my iPhone (one of my nerdy photog interests). Tina has a prayer blanket that was knit for her by a close friend that was meant to not only warm her, which it does incredibly well, but to also remind her that she is enclosed in the prayers of a deeply connected friend. I used my new macro lens to capture a “close-up” of the details of that weave. It’s amazing what we don’t see until magnified. The many differently textured and colored threads tightly interwoven - and this by the hands of someone extremely skillful, with deeply loving intent. https://www.manna4caregivers.org/blog/go-to-the-skyline-and-look-for-the-fireweed monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/4a45e5fa-a843-49f7-80f2-b1a3e62b379f/IMG_7132.JPG Community Blog - Go to the Skyline and Look for the Fireweed - We booked a lake tour that took us north, through Jasper National Park. John and I didn’t realize that Jasper experienced a devastating wildfire last summer. We drove through blackened terrain and mountains, once blanketed in green, now dotted with decay. After leaving Banff - lush and brimming with life - I felt thoroughly depressed by the desolation of Jasper’s stark, charred landscape. We asked our boat guide for recommendations after our tour. There didn’t seem to be anywhere comparable to Banff for hiking. “Go to the Skyline,” he said, “and look for the fireweed.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/84386c98-67c6-4bc2-bc8c-c4a546584746/IMG_7133.JPG Community Blog - Go to the Skyline and Look for the Fireweed - As someone who’s learning and practicing how to write, the fireweed’s metaphor seems too easy, too obvious. But yesterday offered me much more than a pithy idea; it was a real life walk through ends and beginnings. I saw some of my deepest desires in those ashen aspen trees. The dreams and prayers of people i love are there too. I don’t yet perceive any purpose in this pain. You understand what it’s like when life feels barren, vulnerable, fragile, just … ugly. We need one another to point us to fireweed, those fiery, resilient signals that joy will rise. Be my guide, and i will be yours, and we will find it’s unmistakable to see how our Creator is still working, still birthing beauty, still robbing death of its purposelessness. The fireweeds will eventually wither or smother under a blanket of November snow or become a bear cub’s tasty snack. So God helps me see that fireweed is indeed as metaphorical as it is literal. To perceive lasting hope in the fireweed is to apply its resilience not to my aging body or to my temporal circumstances but to my soul which is kept alive forever in Christ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/25886784-fcba-49c5-8234-97f036f8474b/Screenshot+2025-11-05+at+8.12.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Community Blog - Go to the Skyline and Look for the Fireweed - About Renee Ratcliffe Renee is a Christ follower, wife to John, mom to Caroline. Her professional background is special education, and she graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Christian Counseling. She is an advocate and caregiver for individuals who live with special needs and enjoys writing about disability theology, belonging, and mutuality. https://www.manna4caregivers.org/blog/music-and-the-arts-in-caregiving monthly 0.5 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/38f8b9ed-ba9f-4a76-867d-0e13be7d9fc1/IMG_5012.JPG Community Blog - Music and the Arts in Caregiving - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/35875e3c-a05d-4d1a-9f2a-d0524553fbfa/Nola-Jeremy-Accordian.jpg Community Blog - Music and the Arts in Caregiving - Make it stand out This is a pic of Nola trying to teach me to play the accordion many years ago. I never did. 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I realize she was the earthly mother of Jesus, perfect God incarnate, which makes her story much different from ours. But many of the themes otherwise are for us caregivers. https://www.manna4caregivers.org/blog/mpf2g9gktxnzhtqek7fhf882nhskql monthly 0.5 2024-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/1732459415113-U2Y5MW0VFIQPKNDM978U/UK-Wales-47_Original.jpeg Community Blog - Caregiver Wellness: Mind, Body, Soul - Introduction https://www.manna4caregivers.org/blog/heavenward-longing-amp-becoming-part-3 monthly 0.5 2024-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/6d5a6391-c3b8-4e9b-8aef-dcae73156485/IMG_3235.jpeg Community Blog - Heavenward - Longing & Becoming, Part 3 - Make it stand out The Three Sisters, Glencoe Valley, Scotland https://www.manna4caregivers.org/blog/longing-for-the-known monthly 0.5 2024-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/8c0df0ed-8c62-48cf-a371-434c6335aa04/IMG_4937-Enhanced-NR-11.jpg Community Blog - Longing for the Known - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/5abc57a7-223f-400e-8b76-38ea3dc73113/IMG_9230.jpg Community Blog - Longing for the Known - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manna4caregivers.org/blog/longing-amp-becoming-part-1 monthly 0.5 2024-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/6dc3e5f1-523d-45bd-8a1c-fa7314a30165/IMG_0937.jpg Community Blog - Longing & Becoming, Part 1 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manna4caregivers.org/blog/sqwtts65e8o9ksmxao7ypd4qsddxlw monthly 0.5 2024-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66083eecb15a30095f42adb6/e2753005-45b3-47bf-b497-151dcc3f007c/IMG_4854.CR3.jpg Community Blog - Glass Half Empty or Half Full? 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