I was sitting opposite a window where the Venetian blind was at its open point. Looking through the window, the edge-on slats of the blind made straight lines down through the view, altering and obstructing what I could see of the garden outside. They seriously...
Scripture "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall." (Ps 55-22) Observation The first thing to do is to throw off our cares, this is an action, rather like throwing off a coat. Sometimes cares creep up on us and other...
The Writing on the Wall episode in the fifth Chapter of the Book of Daniel (27th Book in the Bible) is one of the MOST melodramatic incidents at once evoking awe on the omniscience of God. There was that indulgent Babylonian King -Belshazar- in one of the Rev parties...
They probably call it ‘white-out.’ We were up there in a ridiculously tiny plane, totally engulfed in white cloud. We were utterly dependent on the expertise of the young man in the pilot seat. I felt as though some one had typed me into the cloud and then gone over...
"I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me." (Ezekiel 33:7) A watchman is one who stands guard and keeps watch. However the mandate over Ezekiel's life was more than just watching for the enemy and...
It is a sad thing to stand at the gate of where home used to be and now it is not. You stand like a stranger, a guest without a welcome, at a gate that once swung open to your touch. You have no right to open it now, no right to smile and step inside and say 'I'm...
After Christmas, a few years ago, I received an email from a family friend, a young mom who was commenting on her toddler’s take on Christmas. “I think my son will really look forward to Christmas next year - now that he gets it - on the kid level anyway. He knows it...
The three of us huddled close, my phone held tightly in my outstretched hand, all eyes watching the white arrow pointing us in the direction of the day's treasure. I've learned to use my smart phone for geocaching, looking for hidden caches based on GPS satellites....
The Train Driver told me, ‘Down the train track just around the bend, a pair of black swans would return each spring to the same dam in the paddock near the railway line. I have been watching this pair of swans return each year for more than twenty-five years to raise...
Every year for some years, we have been visited by an attractive little bird. He spends several months in our garden but when it is time to build his nest, he leaves. He seems to say ‘this is not my home, I am just a visitor.’ We have formed a bond with him and he...