by Crescent Heights | Aug 8, 2025 | Devotionals
When my cracked living room window was replaced last fall, I hardly expected it to impact my inner life. But it has, because now I have a window I can open to warm summer breezes, sounds of bird song and scents of fresh mown grass and lilacs. A shy mourning dove has...
by Crescent Heights | Jul 29, 2025 | Devotionals
Like weather-worn sentinels, a few old grain elevators still stand tall on the prairie horizon. They are symbolic of a slowly dwindling agrarian way of life when family farms passed from generation to generation. The modern metal elevators replacing them look cold and...
by Crescent Heights | Jun 25, 2025 | Devotionals
I have a favorite memory of my father which still comforts me since his death over forty years ago. After a Sunday family dinner with my grandmother when I was a little girl, I would sometimes fall asleep in the back seat of the car on the drive home. I would wake up...
by Crescent Heights | May 7, 2025 | 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 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,...
