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...
They were at a star graze and you can be forgiven for asking “A what?” The name suggests a heavenly feeding frenzy of stars but let me try to explain. We see the moon as a smooth, round sixpence but if you look through a telescope you see mountain peaks sticking up...
We sat on the verandah for morning tea and my husband reminisced on his ramblings through our garden. He said he often comes across interesting natural phenomena. Especially so in springtime, he said. It may be a swarm of bees resting after leaving a hive, or a...
I heard a Nobel Peace Prize winner say once there were things she just had to do or she would die. I know what she meant. I have to grow things. So on the dry and barren hillside that was my garden-to-be, I made plant areas. The soil protested, the weeds protested and...
When you live a distance from town, you have to know where the fuel stops are. You know that without a reliable supply of fuel in the tank you could be in trouble. If an emergency arose and you needed to drive out in the middle of the night, you would want to be sure...
The death penalty operated for certain crimes under the law of Moses. No reprieves, no mitigating circumstances, no getting off because of a past good record. You break, you pay, and saying sorry did not. God has not changed. God never changes, ‘with him there is no...
It has become something of a talking point within my family that I never had a mother. A family member went looking on the internet for family history and discovered that my mother’s name was not there. According to that particular record, I am standing...
The queue was long but I finally arrived at the desk. The electoral officer turned the page of his book and looked up my name. He had thousands of names there, it was a book with all current addresses of everyone who lived in the area. If your name was not there you...
‘Surely you know that you are God’s temple where the Spirit of God dwells’ (1 Corinthians 3:16) Exodus chapter 24 is the Carpenter’s Brief, a ‘make me’ set of instructions. Make me this, make me that, make it this size, make it out of that wood, make it with a rim,...
We made our weekly trip to town to buy groceries at our usual shopping place. When we arrived at the check-out, the young man greeted us with a smile and said courteously, "It seems only five minutes ago that you were here last week." Only five minutes ago and in all...