A phrase that appalls me of latter years is ‘God’s days’, used to promote the idea of extremely long ‘days’. Apparently the days of creation were supposed to be longer days than we have now and are deemed to have each been thousands of years. It’s a belief with...
My question poignant. All my life I had chosen to be on God's team but now I felt God had no time for me, no wish to be a reality to me. I had passed my use-by date and my prove-by date and I was an unacceptable liability. I was too useless to be a member of His team....
The fire siren sounded in the calm of the evening and two huge fire-tankers rumbled along the road. An alarm system had been installed in the community and somebody had the sense to push the alarm button at the first sign of trouble. Much later we learned that a major...
When we struggled financially, our greatest extravagance was to cook a leg of lamb for Christmas dinner. We could imagine nothing more privileged than to have such a meal in our frugal household and Christmas was made the more special because of this one extravagance....
Why did Joseph do all those confusing things to his ten brothers? So far as they were concerned, the heinous sin of their earlier years was a prank of immaturity, a mere peccadillo of youth. It was a long way away from where they were at now, they had grown up and had...
At the Last Supper, Jesus held the cup of wine in his hand and said, "This is my blood of the covenant." Matthew 26:28. This is perhaps the most poignant verse in the New Testament. Jesus is looking at a drink of grape juice and he sees his own face reflected there....
An analemma is the result of a year-long series of photographs of the sun, taken one week apart at exactly the same minute every week. A certain day and a specific time must be set aside each week for one whole year to take each shot and the process cannot be hurried...
Generations of sheep have made tracks in our neighbour's paddock just outside our fence. Year after year, the sheep walk in single file to parts of the paddock essential to their needs. Their water supply, particular shade places where they rest during the day and...
If you look up on a starry night and see several thousand stars in the sky, do they make sense? Those who love them and seek to know them can tell the time and the season by them. They make perfect sense. Others have mastered the patterns and stories and can make...
I was always taught to be courteous even when I was treated with utter disrespect. Regardless of how I was treated, I was expected to remain courteous at the very least. However, I think I have found a great deal of selective courtesy and it offends me because it is...