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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

My newborn daughter fascinated me ˗˗ how the whites of her unfocused eyes were almost blue, her tiny fingernails like pink seashells, the top of her head sweet-scented. The warm weight of her small body held within it all that she was destined to be. This captivated...

A bouquet of fragrant red roses, a spray of white chrysanthemums, lilies arranged elegantly in a vase ˗˗ each of these flowers convey a certain meaning. Learning the special symbolism of flowers became a popular pastime during the 1800’s, when Victorians sometimes...

I have lived in many different houses. I raised my children in a sprawling bungalow by the sea, and in a century-old farmhouse with crooked floors, and in a renovated cottage tucked in the bend of a glacier-fed river. Each one became home because we dwelled there as a...

Images of the distant cosmos sent from the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope give humanity a view of the universe never before seen. The images reveal amazing detail, right down to tiny bursts of light which are galaxies containing trillions of stars. The Webb...

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...