Bethany Peck

About Me

Hi, I’m Bethany, Writer and nature lover

I want to encourage you to find healing and peace in God through nature.

Peonies and Me: Planted, Blooming, Pruned, Transplanted

Planted I ran wild, along with my siblings, on the two acres that felt like an estate. I always loved the visits we’d take to our grandparents a few hours up north, nestled among tall trees in Pennsylvania. Those were formative years, when you have no sense of the wider world or troubles out there,
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For the Grievers at Christmas

These are the days with the least light. You feel it, don’t you? It’s not just a lack of sunshine, it’s the darkness that’s settled deep in your bones. Maybe you’re not at the center of some sadness, but you’re holding the hurt of another you love, and we just wish this pain would all
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A Field Path Through Burtigny

Glass doors open to a pebblestone terrace, and a path below that disappears into the horizon through fields and pasture. One of August’s last suns has long set, darkening the sky, like indigo ink spilling across a nighttime canvas. Humble prayers float away to the brightening stars; hopeful yellow splashes of color, flung into the
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Summer of Roses

It started in Maythe ruby red rosesdelicately lush on a bush in bloom, and each morning I’d walkclose to their color, crossing the street to come in to their presence because that’s what beauty doesbeckoning proximitywith peace that magnetizeswelcoming a pause for pleasure and I lean indrawn to aromatic airdelighting in loveliness that letsme forget
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