Sitting by the fire one night, he quietly looked down at his hands, relaxed in his lap. His new boss had called him into the company office. The new boss had changed his job description, it was still the same job, but called by a different name. In order to keep his...
We shared Noah's journey home and we remember the Children of Israel's journey to their new home in company with God. Man and beast from the past travelled to the future together. God remained with them and gave a statement that has helped to clinch my thinking about...
One story from the tsunami disaster was the survival of the whole population of a seaside village. The people observed that their animals were instinctively fleeing to high ground long before there was any evidence of danger. By acting on what they observed, they...
Recently our door to the outside world gave up its mission. It stopped. It had opened and shut so many times it got tired of opening and shutting and its lock stayed securely locked. The knob didn't work and the key didn't work so both the key and the door were...
I walked with a friend through the garden and we came to the tree where I have little hanging pots for seed for garden birds. About twice a day I fill the pots with seed and there is a feeding frenzy between the colourful Mountain Parrots and the King Parrots. Of...
Somebody spilled juice on the corner carpet. It was wiped up but not properly cleaned and it became a mould that nothing shifted. By the time I was told about it, the stain was a fixture. Furniture was moved to cover the unsightly mess and items were rearranged to...
Many years ago, an elderly lady went back to an area she and her family had once owned. When she was alone and old, she sold it and went to the city to live out her days. She came back for a final visit and called on a young family whose parents she had been friendly...
The train driver told me about driving freight trains before the safety systems were controlled technologically. Certain signal boxes had control of the line between their area and the next designated control area but the signalman would telephone the central control...
The white Cockatoo is an Australian parrot and it lives in the Eastern mountains in huge flocks. By following the Cockatoos, people found sights and views not known before and small communities were established in those isolated places. In time, a train line was built...
Late in the day, someone gave me an urgent message to deliver to my neighbour. He had called on my neighbour but nobody answered the door so he wrote the message down, put it in an envelope, and begged me to deliver it for him. He said it was really urgent. Next...