Meticulously I prepared the meal and there was a lot of preparing to do: washing and peeling vegetables, flavouring and seasoning the main dish, timing and controlling the cooking. Then when it was ready to my satisfaction, I arranged the food on the plates,...
"This is what the LORD says—he who made a way through the sea . . . I am making a way in the wilderness." (Isaiah 43:16, 19) The river was higher than usual. A great amount of rainfall through the year had caused it to swell its banks. This fall the water wasn’t...
"And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself." (John 12:32-33 NKJV) I have never attended a bible study group, nor have I been to church. My parents are not Christians, in fact, no one in my family is. I used to be an atheist. A firm...
"Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them (again) and said, 'Peace be with you!'" (John 20:26) The door slammed shut. We were having dinner, and even with the animated chatter I could hear it bang closed. When we have family get-togethers, it’s a...
There is a bowl of fruit on the table and its variety is enchanting. Some of the fruit is rough-skinned and some smooth; some is shiny and some is dull; some I can eat in one bite on the run and some I can chew my way through at my leisure. There is also a rainbow of...
"You asked, Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge? Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me. You said, Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me. My ears have heard of You but now my...
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...