"For HE said, 'I will never leave you or ever forsake you'" Hebrews 13: 5 KJIIV. I, until recently, shared my home with two fur-persons, Bonnie and Clyde. I like cats because they are so independent and still so loving. Bonnie and Clyde were totally different in their...
It was hard to believe we had already been in these beautiful mountains for six nights. We had been told that there was no mountain range in the world that compared to the Canadian Rockies, and though our repertoire of mountains is limited, these were definitely the...
I glanced down at the gas gauge for the hundredth time in the past ten minutes. The needle seemed to be plummeting downwards, and with each passing kilometer, it came nearer to its final resting point: "E". Under normal circumstances this might not have been a...
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily hinders our progress. And let us run with endurance the race that God has set before...
"Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then...
"God is our refuge and strength, an ever- present help in trouble." (Psalm 46:1) She was from another country. She tried hard to communicate and fit in to the culture that was quite foreign to her. She read books to learn the language. She watched TV to study the...
Feelings are part of our carnal life and although God recognises our weaknesses and vulnerabilities, I believe He wants to lift us to higher plains. To fly like eagles believing His Word, trusting in His Word and watching the victory of His Word materialise. We are...
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5 NIV) This scripture passage tells me that as a plant cannot survive unless it remains rooted in the soil, so I cannot...
We had long ago cleared the area for a garden bed and now I was planting a new shrub in it. A strong feature of the bed was its stability. In spite of being on a steep slope and having all the rubbish cleared from the topsoil, it had not shifted or been washed away in...
"It shall be health to thy navel and refreshment to your bones." (Proverbs 3:8) .... According to Clarks commentary he says: "the fetus receives its nourishment all the time it is in the womb of the mother. It receives nothing by the mouth, nor by any other means: by...