What makes Christmas Eve beautiful and wonder-filled? Perhaps it’s large, soft snow flakes gently brushing faces and whitening eyebrows while twinkling tree lights interrupt the darkness and church carillons chime Silent Night. Maybe it’s Andy Williams singing Christmas is “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” where “ those holiday greetings and gay happy meetingsContinue reading “Is Christmas Really the Most Wonderful Time of the Year?”
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Thankful and Content?
Watching this humming bird at its feeder while I porch-sat with an early morning cup of coffee was both entertaining and enlightening. Undoubtedly this tiny but magnificent creature was acting instinctively as it drove away other hungry “hummers.” It showed no signs of grace or generosity while ferociously guarding a feeder filled with enough foodContinue reading “Thankful and Content?”
It’s All About the Rocks…
In an illusion of safety, this skiff sat on these large rocks unattended, unsecured, unanchored. Oblivious to threats beyond the distant southern mountains, it sat unprotected, vulnerable to gale force winds, rising tides, and thunderous, crashing surf which unexpectedly but invariably will sweep in and batter the skiff against the rocks. Therein lies a parableContinue reading “It’s All About the Rocks…”
The Talking Moose….
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you…” (Job 12:7-10) Nature speaks. It sparks moments of wonder about a planet given to usContinue reading “The Talking Moose….”
A Different Kind of Poverty
Whether by neglect or for lack of financial resources, this structure is in need of attention. Its condition is not hopeless but needs someone to restore it. Likewise, when our emotional or spiritual needs are unmet, a state of poverty exists, and restoration is needed. Jesus addressed spiritual poverty and its solution in his SermonContinue reading “A Different Kind of Poverty”
The Untangling
There are times when we find ourselves all tangled up “in the weeds” of emotionally or spiritually unhealthy “things.” We may struggle with unsatisfying lifestyles or disappointment and emptiness because relationships, achievements, and pleasures fail to sustain our emotional and spiritual needs. It is even possible to be achieving our potential but left wondering whetherContinue reading “The Untangling”
The Right Time
Timing is everything! Whether boiling an egg or bailing hay, it may make the difference between success or failure! My grandfather was a “dirt” farmer who grew up on a small Maine farm which he eventually owned and where my father and older brother were born in the same bed 29 years apart. There heContinue reading “The Right Time”
Wonder Bread
Maine’s beautiful Aroostook County’s rolling farm land grows many crops including hay, alfalfa, potatoes and wheat. One wonders how many slices of Wonder Bread Aroostook’s wheat fields might produce! Bread, whether Wonder Bread, sourdough, whole grain, unleavened, or gluten free, is a worldwide food staple. But when Jesus was challenged with temptation, he pointed outContinue reading “Wonder Bread”
Beauty Within the Seeds…
Monhegan Island Poppies These beautiful poppies delight us. Fortunately, the wonderful ability to replicate their beauty is tightly wrapped inside them. However, if those tiny seeds are inappropriately used, there is potential for harm, addiction, destruction, and death lurking within them. With that in mind, the poppy seed becomes an example of what is soContinue reading “Beauty Within the Seeds…”
The Light that broke the darkness…
Sunrise, Sullivan Harbor, Maine What will come with the rising sun? Aggravation or happiness? Dispair or hope? Disaster or blessing? Or even a long desired but barely noted and unexpected miracle? Who could have known? When the sun rose that morning “the light of the world,” the “true light that lighteth everyone” was arriving toContinue reading “The Light that broke the darkness…”
Sweet Words from Maine 