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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...
"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...
It was unspoken good manners among country people to leave your front door key under the mat. If you were away for a day or a week or a year and your neighbour, or a passing stranger, needed anything from your home, the key was there. Only bad-mannered people would...
Many people in the Western world now use GPSs for navigational purposes. It is really a fantastic tool. You set the address or coordinates into the tiny computer, and it tells you what road to take, how many miles or kilometres it is, and even how long it will take...
"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." (I Cor 9:24-25...
"You are precious and honored in my sight, and... I love you." (Isaiah 43:4) She was waiting for her mom there in the drugstore, standing near the cash register with her eyes glued to the candy shelves. She was maybe 5 or 6. For that little girl, paradise was just a...
"Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand." (Isa 64:8 NIV) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Cor 5:17-18 NIV) One of the questions the continually...
I gave blood again the other day. It was such a delightful experience. I arrived early to beat the crowds but found that several other early birds had gotten there even before me. We all smiled about it and waited patiently while the Red Cross finished setting up the...
"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight,...
"And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Matt 22:39 NKJV) "Good fences make good neighbors", the television commentator said, misquoting Robert Frost for the millionth time in my memory. It made me wonder if the esteemed poet was not...
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 pray …. That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you." (John 17:20,21) A couple buttons snapped off in the laundry. As I was sewing them back on I began to think about how the Holy Spirit uses a sewing stitch to ‘string’ together the...
I am told there is a place on the Western Australian coast where the full moon rising over mud flats causes an optical illusion. From March to October each year, on three successive nights in each month, the full moon rising over the mud flats, creates the illusion of...