Here in the Pacific Northwest we know about huckleberries, don’t we? They are those little, scrumptious, dark blue tongue-tantalizers which some people have a seemingly insatiable appetite for. If we happen to be out in the mountains when the huckleberries are “on,“ we may find ourselves stopping to pick them straight off the bush and [...]
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HUCKLEBERRIES AND THE CREATOR
Posted in Hope, Outdoors, Spiritual on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT……
Posted in Hope, Spiritual on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew 11:28 Some years back, and several hundred miles from home, I left the greater part of civilization behind me and traveled to the mountains for a time of rest and respite. In the early morning hours, long before any sign of light was showing in the sky to the east, I awakened to [...]
SOUNDING SAD
Posted in Direction in life, Hope, Spiritual on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Psalm 105:43 “But they sound so sad! Don’t they sound that way to you, Dad?” My daughter and her husband had recently moved to a new city and the noise of Air Force jet fighter aircraft taking off on a regular basis, only a few hundred yards from the doorway of the military housing unit [...]
YOU WANT IT COLD? . . . TURN UP THE HEAT!
Posted in Direction in life, Hope, Spiritual on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Judges 20:11 I was acquainted with a nice couple who lived in an older home which had a modern gas furnace used to heat the house during the cold months of the year. In those months of summer when the heat in the deep valley in which they lived became almost unbearable, they would retreat [...]
SLEEPLESSNESS AND CHRISTIANS
Posted in Church, Hope, Spiritual on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I slept in. Hey! I will agree that this is not something that happens often but, you have got to remember, I am retired now–whatever that means. Anyway, rather than awakening at the usual time of 5 AM, I did not stumble out of bed till a bit after 6 AM. I was [...]
PRAYER ROCK
Posted in Church, Hope, Spiritual on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently came upon this little piece of verse in some old notes. I have no idea where it came from or who may have authored it. PRAYER ROCK I’m your little prayer rock and this is what I’ll do. Just put me on your pillow until the day is through. When you turn back [...]
AWAY FROM THE STORM
Posted in Hope, Spiritual on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Only a few hours earlier the two other men and I, each on a snow machine, had been making all kinds of designs in the deep, soft powder snow as we swept first one way and then another, back and forth over the small mountain meadow we had come upon. As I sped across the [...]
I was seated on a narrow walkway outside the small, 14 x 14 foot room that was the limited space inside the window enclosed fire lookout tower. The sun had finally descended below the horizon to the west and I was now staring into the distance to the east, watching the cloaks of darkness settle [...]
