There is a special shrub growing in the garden, heavily entwined with another plant and they were at the stage of developing new growth. They looked the same at that stage, the leaves were the same shape, the stems were the same, and I really could not tell them...
Francis Schaeffer is quoted as saying ‘One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary. To be conservative today is to miss the whole point, for conservatism means standing...
The computer expert called in to install a new program on the computer for my husband’s astro-photography. He set it up and pressed some keys and chatted to us while the computer did its own mysterious thing. At the end of the exercise my husband had a whole new...
We looked through an antique shop and a small writing desk imprinted itself on our wishlist. Dad wanted it for me because the workmanship was superb. But the cost was prohibitive. Instead, he made over a chunky little old table for me, salvaged from a scrap truck on...
Have you ever felt you were invisible? Perhaps you have sometimes felt you were so insignificant nobody knew you even existed? I have a garden shrub like that. It is weak and spindly and it leans on the trees growing around it for support. It weaves its way up through...
Remember how, as new Christians, we felt we had been resurrected from the dead? We surged with new life and the wonder of it engulfed us. We had caught a glimpse of Christ and he made a profound impact on us. Then the bandwagon grabbed us and we were urged to tell...
With hundreds, and maybe thousands, I watched the news about a young man who disappeared. He was apparently depressed and obviously felt he was of no value to those around him so he left a note for his father and mother and quietly walked away. Along with untold...
Australian Magpies are user-friendly birds. They are people birds, that is, they make friends easily and because they live in families, you can have a resident family of Magpies for years on end. They will come for scraps of food and will learn to take them from your...
I gathered a handful of greeting cards from the table and sought somewhere to keep them. They were precious and I wanted to keep them safely. “I need a box,” I said to thin air and there was an immediate use for one of the cardboard boxes I can’t bear to throw away....
She watched him leave, something impressing her she would not see him again He had vowed to fight her poverty, brought about by the greed of bureaucracy, and he was so sure he would succeed, there was a swagger in his step. Surely they would listen when they...