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Generations of sheep have made tracks in our neighbour's paddock just outside our fence. Year after year, the sheep walk in single file to parts of the paddock essential to their needs. Their water supply, particular shade places where they rest during the day and...
A ruthless publisher once said to author Mark Twain, "Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud from the top." "I have a better idea," Twain remarked, "You could stay home here and keep...
If you look up on a starry night and see several thousand stars in the sky, do they make sense? Those who love them and seek to know them can tell the time and the season by them. They make perfect sense. Others have mastered the patterns and stories and can make...
"Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.'" (John 20:29 NIV) "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. 2This is what the ancients were commended...
I was always taught to be courteous even when I was treated with utter disrespect. Regardless of how I was treated, I was expected to remain courteous at the very least. However, I think I have found a great deal of selective courtesy and it offends me because it is...
"Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord." (Lamentations 3:40) Secrets: as a kid they are fun. Telling “secrets” to your best friend and only the two of you know; laughing together in acknowledgement of the information only the two of you...
There it was. That special, warm, cozy feeling. The one that makes me feel secure and calm, safe from all harm. I reveled in it for a moment before turning my thoughts to the storm raging outside the window of the van. Then I had to ask myself: How is it that I can...
"For I the Lord your God will hold your right hand; I am the Lord, Who says to you, Fear not; I will help you!" (Isaiah 41:13) How impossible does your situation look? How bad has it gone that you feel that it is time to give up? How hopeless do you...
The Train Driver was reminiscing and with his eyes on the floor he began his story quietly. "As a call-boy we would work three different shifts, seven hours sixteen minutes per shift, forty-four minute meal break, eleven days per fortnight. On night shift we were kept...
"For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12) In our back yard we have 2 bird feeders. Since I try...
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily hinders our progress. And let us run with endurance the race that God has set before...
Rocky was my 14 year old male 1/2 boxer and 1/2 great dane, he was a force to be reckoned with. He was a great watch dog, always doing his job and loving us without question. Now Sassy (she lived up to her name) was an 11 year old full-blooded Boxer. Rocky loved Sassy...
Grammar is a funny thing. I remember when it was almost mandatory that no ifs-ands-ors-or-buts may be used to begin a sentence. If you dared to challenge the rule you got - sorry, got was nearly as bad as ifs-ands-ors-or-buts - you were marked down, right down. That...