“‘… Have you seen the treasury of hail, which I have reserved for the time of trouble …?’” Job 38:22–23. A faithful friend of our family sits patiently above our fireplace mantel, its golden pendulum swaying back and forth, unabated for the past decade. Like a...
Rolling plains of durum wheat, grown especially for my favorite pasta dish. Or perhaps a field of sweet organic corn stretching as far as the eye can see? My wife loves corn. In another life I would have enjoyed a farmstead or a ranch, I think. I’m rather perplexed...
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 How much should I share? I don’t want to say too little. I definitely don’t want to share too much.You see, I was quite different back then. You’d barely recognize me. Surrender and meekness was...
As a man who can be rather stoic at times, I just read a soothing story and have to take a long walk with God to digest the magnitude of it. There is a wooded trail ahead that winds off into the distance. I’ll take that one and see where it goes.I like observing...
The slow turning of a ceiling fan. Thin alabaster window shades sway in the breeze of an idle summer’s day. Beyond its gentle sway, I can see our garden blossoming like never before. And beyond that, a vast sea of sprouting corn that extends for miles in many...
Twenty years ago, I met a veteran in Colorado Springs, right after my discharge from the service. Regrettably, I don’t remember his name. He came down out of the Rocky Mountains one day each week to work at the engineering laboratory where I was employed as a new...
