admin

Star filled skies reminded me of the power of prayer over darkness

We have all heard the theme from the television series Star Trek, “Space. The Final Frontier…” This morning I want to deal with the real final frontier … death. Or is it? For many people, death is a taboo subject. We avoid it. We are afraid of it. We institutionalize it so that we don’t have to see it. Yet death is part of life,...

When I was growing up, we used to play hide and seek outdoors after dark. It added a new element to the game. Hiding was much easier, and seeking was much harder. The shadows and darkness offered wonderful new places to hide from view. One time, we played using flashlights. When the person who was “it” shone their light on you, you were out. That...

I sat out on the back patio yesterday evening, preparing to barbecue supper. I had my Merlin app tracking the birds. It captured calls from 21 different species. That’s a lot of diversity for a small yard. God likes diversity; it displays his creative power and love of beauty. The other evening, the sky was blue, grey, black, pink, yellow, purple, and more, depending on where...

God provides for the chickadees and for you

Tomorrow is Good Friday. The day we commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus and His death. It seems such a strange name for a remembrance of the day when humanity’s ultimate sin occurred. Yet it might not be as strange as you think. There are several possible reasons for the name. The most plausible comes from Old English, where “good” often meant holy or pious. That...

The black-capped chickadee is an amazing little bird. They are cute, friendly, and have a sweet song, but they also have some amazing characteristics you might not know about. Each year, the chickadee’s hippocampus sheds memories of the previous year and develops new patterns to remember the location of every seed it stashed away. It is estimated that they can remember 100,000 seeds. Scientists are studying this...