THE GARDEN OF GOD’S PRESENCE

THE GARDEN OF GOD’S PRESENCE

Last spring, Jan and I said goodbye to our front lawn. We gave away our lawn mower and replaced the lawn with a small orchard of fruit trees, vegetables, and spices, along with other plants that complement the growth and health of the surrounding plants and trees....

REHEARSING DOOM

I must admit something. There are times when a negative issue seems out of my control in my mind and thoughts of doom and dread fill my thinking, that I begin rehearsing negative outcomes. Perhaps this is enhanced in me because for the years I spent as a cop, I...

THE NEXT BIG THING

Two things happened yesterday that God used to gain my attention. The first was a quote from A.W.Tozer that Jan read to me from one of his devotionals titled “Sanctify the Ordinary.” The other was an introduction written by my daughter for a painting she just...

IN SEARCH OF SIMPLICITY

The older I get the more I notice a similarity between aging physically and maturing spiritually. As I reviewed the last seven decades of my life, some of the things I was interested in while still maturing naturally and spiritually, are no longer of interest to me....
THIS ONE THING

THIS ONE THING

There is so much unfolding in our world that we do not fully understand. One thing is becoming clear to discerning minds, we are alive at the beginning of a series of changes that will reset everything in our world including how we will be allowed to live and conduct...