"the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:9) We had been in the midst of a tropical depression. Lots of gray, soggy clouds were sitting there not going anywhere. Day after day the rains...
Over the past 8 devotionals, we've been taking a close look at the story of Jesus and Peter walking on water; but this story is so concrete. The disciples were in the midst of a literal storm, and they were in a real boat. Our storms aren't the kind that would tip...
During the spring and summer, I often see tiny birds driving off much larger ones. I've often wondered about this. How does such a tiny bird have the courage, speed and strength to attack and drive off a much larger one? Finally my curiosity got the better of me, and...
There was a mist this morning when I first looked out the window. A major fog had rolled in, obscuring my vision of the yard... But wait. How could it be foggy? It was, according to the weathernetwork, -14 degrees C! Not exactly weather for the kind of fog I saw in my...
"Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't you far more valuable to him than they are? If God cares so wonderfully for (these)...he will certainly care for you." (Matthew 6:26.30) By late...
God gave me a powerful Psalm this morning. It wasn't the first time I had been given this text, and as I heard the familiar words playing themselves out in my mind, my thoughts went back to that day, over 40 years ago, when God first spoke to me through this Psalm......
"'Have faith in God,' Jesus answered." (Mark 11:22) "The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith!'" (Luke 17:5) "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God." (Psalm 20:7) "They're so far away. And things seem to be...
Last year, I sat in the passenger's seat while my friend drove through the crowded parking lot in a shopping mall during the Christmas season. "Did you see what that guy did?" she screamed, "He pulled right in front of me." I gasped, more frightened by her frantic...
My friend stopped by the other day and rumbled in her purse. "You have to see the pictures I took during our trip," she said. I smiled. "Oops," she added, "I always forget you...well...that you can't see." "I forget myself," I said with a chuckle. (I like folks with a...
Even in the frozen northlands of Canada, winter does not last forever. I know this is true, I have experienced 30 years of the changing Canadian seasons, yet somehow, last year, I didn't believe it. While most of the northern hemisphere basked in unseasonably warm...