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...
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...