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...
by Crescent Heights | Nov 13, 2024 | Devotionals
I can remember the smell of the Royal Canadian Navy ship on which my father sailed, a pungent blend of diesel fuel, marine paint and salty sea air. Once a year the crew’s families were invited onboard for a tour. My brothers and I clambered on the large guns mounted...
by Crescent Heights | Oct 3, 2024 | Devotionals
I remember … my father coming home, tall and handsome in his navy uniform, setting down his bag full of gifts from far away places and sweeping me up in his arms. I remember my mother, lovely in a fresh summer dress, pearled and perfumed, her face aglow for her...
by Crescent Heights | Sep 12, 2024 | 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 freshly mowed grass and lilacs. A shy mourning dove...
