Dingo Dog

Dingo Dog

Goodness is something so simple: always to live for others, never to seek one’s own advantage.
—Dag Hammerskjold

Harry Tupper is a fishing legend... Read More »
The Tent of Meeting

The Tent of Meeting

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.


—John Ruskin

Moses used to pitch a little tent “outside... Read More »
How Does Your Garden Grow?

How Does Your Garden Grow?

All beauty speaks of Thee.
—Edward Grubb

I received a letter from an old friend some months ago in which she wrote of her daughter and a few things... Read More »
A Call to Failure

A Call to Failure

I had a call to a mission,
Signed in my heart and sealed,
And I felt my success was certain,
And the end seemed already revealed;
The sea was without... Read More »
Pulling an Eddie

Pulling an Eddie

“I will tell you. Get up, and do something the Master tells you; so make
yourself his disciple at once.”


~George MacDonald

Scripture:... Read More »
God of the Coming Years

God of the Coming Years

God of the coming years, through paths unknown
We follow Thee . . .


—Hugh T. Kerr

Scripture: Hebrews 11:8

When... Read More »
What If Christmas Means a Little Bit More?

What If Christmas Means a Little Bit More?

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.Read More »
Simeon’s Farewell

Simeon’s Farewell

Let the infant, the still unspeaking and unspoken word,
Grant Israel’s consolation
To one who has eighty years and no tomorrow
.

~T. S. Eliot,... Read More »
God Contracted to a Span: The Infinite Made Infintessimally Small [1]

God Contracted to a Span: The Infinite Made Infintessimally Small [1]

’Twas much that man
was made like God before,
But that God should be made like man—
much more.
~John Donne

Scripture: Micah... Read More »
On Yaks and Other Matters of Faith

On Yaks and Other Matters of Faith

We have been talking about faith ever since the Lord came. It is not exhausted yet, and God forbid that I should think that I know yet what faith is; although I know a little... Read More »