by Crescent Heights | Apr 30, 2025 | Devotionals
Here in winter, the days seem to finish before they have barely begun. I wake to a frozen world, stark trees immobile in iron-hard earth, all swathed in layers of snow. The only movement is ice crystals glittering in pale dawn light. Before I know it, the blue...
by Crescent Heights | Mar 5, 2025 | Devotionals
He might have been called Thomas the realist, or skeptical Thomas. But Jesus Himself gave Thomas the title he would be known by down through the centuries — doubting Thomas. The apostle refused to believe that the resurrected Jesus, whom he had seen crucified,...
by Crescent Heights | Feb 5, 2025 | Devotionals
He holds her hand, stroking the wrinkled, fragile skin with his thumb. She does not respond but he lifts her hand to his lips for a kiss anyway. In this peaceful moment before she sleeps, he remembers how her eyes once danced and her voice had a laughing lilt. She...
by Crescent Heights | Jan 7, 2025 | Devotionals
There is a phrase echoing around in my mind, easier to describe than to define ˗˗ sense of place. It is warm golden pine needles carpeting the ground, spicing the air with each cushioned footstep. It is shafts of sunlight dropped down through tree columns, alive with...
by Crescent Heights | Dec 7, 2024 | Devotionals
There is an expectancy of hope resonating throughout time. Can you hear it? A whisper, a murmur, a hum of anticipation beginning in a garden, rippling in a flood, rustling across a desert, then gaining volume in the voices of prophets. Someone is coming! History...
