Every year I used to buy this bunny for Shirley. The last time I bought it was 2014. That was the year she died. And, because of her cancer, she didn't eat it that time. What she did say was"This Easter has been just so special. I realized so much where would we be...

Happy birthday. For people all around the world today is your birthday. You may be turning two or a hundred and two but it is your birthday! I don't know you but God does. He was there when you were born, counts the hairs on your head and neither slumbers nor sleeps...

I can think of two possibilites: macho monkey robbed the bin so ranger put the lid on to stop him .... or macho monkey climbed in and then the ranger put the lid on - which would you prefer? To be prevented from doing more mischief, or to be trapped by it? Psalm 86:5...

While standing beside the pond below our home I saw two yellow billed ducks looking at the world upside down. I love it when the feathered folk do this! But I did realize this was seeing things upside down. The right way up is to see things the way God reveals to us....

Getting forms filled in and registered can be the dullest business. And then this most beautiful little cameo played out in front of my eyes. She had brought some make up in a packet and set out to make Granny beautiful. Granny was beautiful already but she wanted her...

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Anna was very old and at the age of 84 had been a widow for 7 years. "She never left the temple but worshipped night and day, fasting and praying"(Luke 2:37). Here we were in Oslo making new friends - see pics. And while I knew that my heart was not like Anna's I did...

"Yipee - it's Friday!" And so it is! How wonderful are those moments when we have a spring in our step - we can't explain why - but we don't need to. There may be nothing in the circumstances as we look around us to make us skip but we do anyway. Why? Because inside...

Frenzy, frazzle, fret. And then we find a pic like this. And now we think of serenity, togetherness, shalom. The charm of it melts away stress. Peace decends and we strive to be really deeply still. And then it is that we are one with God. Without that deepest place...

In 2005 Teri takes me round Washington. We have been students together at Regent University and I'm on my way to Virginia Beach to start a new course. We pull up beside the Ptomac River. I'm fascinated by three statues emerging from the ground. The first if of a face,...