Room with a View

Room with a View

I’m writing today from Phoenix, where we have been celebrating the retirement of a dear friend. It’s hot, but beautiful, here and I’ve really been enjoying the view from our room.What is it about a beautiful view? People clamor for the best view, no...
Room with a View

Clouds of Cotton Candy

They were walking to their seats at the circus, father and daughter, hand-in-hand past the clowns and the animals and the general chaos of a circus tent. He surprised her when he stopped at the cotton candy stand and pulled out his wallet. “Do I get to have some...

A Man of His Word

I have a devotional journal called “Streams in the Desert”. The original text was published in 1925, a collection of thoughts and inspirations collected by a missionary to Japan and China as an additional means of sustenance during hard years. Sometimes...

Good Things…BEST Things

I read a quote recently, that I have actually lived. “Even a good thing can weigh us down if it isn’t the best thing.” Oh, how true that is.There are a lot of good things out there. Causes worthy of our time, church or civic projects needy of our...

Birds of Differing Feathers

I saw something today that I’ve never seen before. On top of a neighbor’s roof, I witnessed a feathery version of David and Goliath. A tiny little bird of an unknown variety (there are a LOT of those here in Florida!) was dive-bombing a very large hawk....