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"Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart." (Psalm 31:24) The hurricane blew through the Keys and south Florida with a mighty force. The winds howled, and the rain pounded relentlessly for 24 hours. My sister and her husband have a home in Marathon, Fla....
Every morning a wild magpie flies from across the hills and lands in a tree in the garden. There he waits. He waits until we come out of the house and see him. Then he waits until we throw tiny pieces of bread or food scraps to him. He catches each piece on the wing,...
There was a work bee this morning, out at the barn where my boys and I ride. The place was literally "buzzing" as chain saws cut fence posts to length, skill saws sliced through boards for new stall doors, hammers pounded 4 inch nails into jump standards, and the...
"Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly...
For the uninitiated, a Dictionary definition of the term “Plimsoll line” is that it is a line drawn on the lower end of ships, marking the maximum level to which the ship can sink into water after its tare capacity is full. Simply put, it is an indication of the...
It is a tough call to own a motor car that runs on LP gas* instead of on conventional petrol. It has advantages but the serious downside is that if you run out of fuel you are stuck. You can’t borrow a litre or two from a passing motorist or walk down to the nearest...
“For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish.” (II Cor. 2:15) When I stepped out onto our back deck one morning, I was greeted by a lovely fragrance hanging in the air. I knew it came from a rose, for a rose has its own...
Today in the concluding part of the series, let's look at a response of God's anointed to persecution from enemies weaker than them! Yes, strange as it seems, we even sometimes see enemies who are actually weaker than us who provoke us badly. Here it would be all the...
"and he said, 'Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD.' And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but...
"So go to the street corners and invite everyone you find to come to my feast.’" (Matthew 22:9, NCV) There is a tree not far from the covered patio behind my parents house. For years my mother has taken bread and other food, torn it into small pieces and thrown it out...
One of the pastors at my church recently said that this must be the era of inflatable lawn ornaments. As I was jogging through my neighbourhood in rural Canada that same evening, it occurred to me that he must be right. So many lawns now display inflatable snowmen,...
We built a pathway but just off to one side was the tip of a rock deep in the ground. We could not shift it. It looked as though we could not cover it with dirt to level out the ground without making it higher than the pathway. It seemed doomed to remain an obstacle...
"I pray …. That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you." (John 17:20,21) Hand crocheted by my grandmother, this treasured tablecloth has individual squares that were made first, then sewn together. A couple of buttons snapped off in the...