Carefully I addressed the Christmas card. The name was right, the street and street number were right and the town was definitely right. Inadvertently, the post-code was wrong. One wrong figure in a four-figure code sent the letter spinning off to another town. It...
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." (Proverbs 1:7) Remember when ‘time out’ was when the umpire called for a break? Then maybe you’re as old as I am. The little blue chair, off to the side in my daughter’s...
After reading a while I switched off the light and looked out the window at the dark sky. The moon was a sliver against the blackness and only two stars shone down from a featureless map. Nothing else, just a fraction of moon and two stars. I closed my eyes wishing I...
For more than half of my life, I have lived where water must be conserved. For many years it was a life and death issue because if the well ran dry, there was simply no alternative. Now, of course, you can buy drinking water from a shop but where I live, water is...
It was almost ten years ago when I experienced a season in my life called "The empty nest syndrome." At that time our church receptionist asked me if I would be interested in reading Scripture to a homebound lady. She had Multiple Sclerosis and was unable to leave her...
I took my boys, 5 and 8, down to the Milwaukee Lakefront and was teaching them to skip rocks. It is so satisfying to see one skip off into the distance and disappear from view, riding the waves. Ok, so I have never been that good...but two or three skips in a row...
There is a special shrub growing in the garden, heavily entwined with another plant and they were at the stage of developing new growth. They looked the same at that stage, the leaves were the same shape, the stems were the same, and I really could not tell them...
Last Saturday, in LESSONS ON REBIRTH FROM THE CHRISTMAS STORY, Part 3, we continued our look at what the Christmas story can teach us about the rebirth process by looking at the Christmas star. We learned that God wants to get our attention, and He desires a...
The book of Job. I don't know about you, but this isn't my favourite book in the Bible. It seems like such a strange piece of literature, and though its main topic is as relevant today as it was in the day the book was written, there are so many things said, over so...
(The book of John takes us through many deep discussions that Jesus gave at various times in His ministry. Please click herefor Study #1 -- Jesus and Nicodemus; Study #2 -- The Woman at the Well; Study #3 -- At the Pool of Bethesda; and Study #4 -- Bread of Life; and...