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...
I have a snapshot of a figurine on a rock in the garden with the rising sun. The figurine is almost obliterated when it is clothed with light as the sun rises behind it. In the snapshot, you cannot see how the figurine is dressed when it is covered with the light of...
"A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out." (Isaiah 42:3; Matthew 12:20) "Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you." (1 Peter 5:7) The Christmas and holiday decorations packed up and closeted away for another...
Do you ever feel like God has abandoned you? Like everything is going good for everyone but you? Like no matter how much or how ardently you seek God, He doesn't hear you, or worse, He doesn't care? Maybe you've had a great sin in your life, and though you've been...
'For this I came into the world, to testify to the truth, everyone on the side of truth listens to me. What is truth? Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said; I find no basis for a charge against him.” (John 18:37-38 NIV) “My sheep listen to my...
"You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world." 1 John 4:4 It was irresistible. Too warm and sunny, too lovely an afternoon to not take a few minutes to sit outside on the back porch...
"And the Lord said to Moses: 'You are going to rest with your fathers, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them … And I will certainly hide my face...
"O Sovereign Lord, you have only begun to show your greatness and the strength of your hand to me, your servant. Is there any god in heaven or on earth who can perform such great and mighty deeds as you do?" (Deuteronomy 3:24) Don’t you love being ‘on top of the...