by Crescent Heights | Feb 2, 2026 | Devotionals
With gentle hands the stocky, gray-haired doctor examines each patient in a room filled with suffering Angolans. He is able to visit this isolated clinic just once a month, so for 24 hours straight he examines, treats and performs surgery in primitive conditions on as...
by Crescent Heights | Jan 5, 2026 | Devotionals
Before I close the curtains at dusk, I pause by the window to gaze at winter snow shadows. Approaching night intensifies the blue of sky to depths of colour soaked in by unmarked fields of snow. Words fail to describe the shades of translucent blue, green and violet...
by Crescent Heights | Dec 5, 2025 | Devotionals
I carefully unwrap each porcelain figurine, setting them within the rustic wooden creche. A shepherd with a lamb, three wise men dressed in fine robes, a donkey, a sheep and an ox. An angel with outspread wings looks down upon Mary and Joseph gazing at the baby in a...
by Crescent Heights | Nov 5, 2025 | Devotionals
Beneath the sea is a rock, created when darkness was over the surface of the deep. Myriads of sea plants and creatures have touched the surface of the rock over the eons but never changed it. Currents have swirled, earthquakes trembled, yet the rock endures,...
by Crescent Heights | Oct 7, 2025 | Devotionals
Soon my backyard will be aglow with autumn leaves. I look forward to the sun warming the lemon yellows and pumpkin oranges with lively light. The garden waits to be put to bed for the year, once the last potatoes and carrots are dug. On my way to town I see wheat...
