Picking apples, making pies

July 9th, 2020 | 2 min read

By Matthew Shedden

Stay out super late tonight

Picking apples, making pies

Put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us

We’re half awake in a fake empire

–The National, Fake Empire

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Matthew Shedden

Matthew Shedden is pastor at Defiance Church in a small mountain town in Colorado. There he tries to reclaim the trivial by spending with his family, fly fishing the Roaring Fork, skiing, and cooking.

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