Light Keepers

Light Keepers

“Let your light shine before men…” Matthew 5:16   “If you were to ask a Light Keeper what they do, they would tell you that they keep the light lit.” (The Worlds Lighthouse Encyclopedia)   What is it that a Light Keeper REALLY does?  It’s more complicated...
Song of Creation

Song of Creation

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork.  Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge.  There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.  Their line has gone out through all the earth and their...
Letters to Daddy

Letters to Daddy

“My son, keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother.  Bind them continually upon your heart.”  Proverbs 6:20 “Mom, what do I put on the envelope?”   Mom looked down at the letter in my hand and the blank envelope.  I had written several...
Boarded Windows

Boarded Windows

I walked passed the house two or three afternoons per week on my way home from after-school activities.  I guess it would be more accurate to say that I ran passed it.  It was a shack of a house with boarded up windows, an old man and two young men nearly always...
My Mother, My Friend

My Mother, My Friend

I have chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven, Cary Grant & Doris Day are on the television and my kitchen window is opened just enough to allow a chorus of bird-song in.  As I sip my afternoon coffee and wait for just the right time to take the cookies out, I...
Bird Brain

Bird Brain

“What is he up to?” I asked myself, heading down the hallway one morning.  The tapping and scraping sounds grew louder the further I went down the hall.  Daniel was the only one down there.  I opened his bedroom door to find him lounging on his bed, reading a book and...