by Crescent Heights | Aug 1, 2023 | Devotionals
The scent of sun-warmed pine and salt air streamed past me as I coasted on my bicycle down the winding hill to one of my favorite summer destinations. My friend and I planned to spend the day roaming around Fort Rodd Hill, an old coastal artillery fortress and...
by Crescent Heights | Jul 4, 2023 | Devotionals
At first there is an awareness of light, a slight fading of darkness around the curtain edges, then I drift back to sleep. When next I open my eyes, my bedroom is glowing with cheery yellow sunlight and bird song heralds a new day. Near the end of a long, cold winter...
by Crescent Heights | Jun 1, 2023 | Devotionals
I didn’t have my father for very long. He died at 60, when I was only 30 years old. When I think of him I remember as a child waiting for a tall, handsome man striding down the gangplank of a Canadian Navy ship to scoop me up in his arms, his dark blue uniform still...
by Crescent Heights | May 26, 2023 | Devotionals
After my son was born I was feeling tired and disheartened. He was a fussy baby, often awake at night and hard to feed. One day as I sat nursing him for the umpteenth time, I heard a radio program about the life of Moses, the great biblical patriarch. The speaker...
by Crescent Heights | Apr 2, 2023 | Devotionals
A garden offers up its secrets generously, whispering renewal in scent, color, fruit and loam. A quiet garden, when listened to carefully, teems with stems stretching, buds unfurling, roots reaching deep; a symphony of life discerned below the surface of hearing. When...
