Do you stand in awe of God’s power and creativity?  Do you also stand in awe of the power and creativity that God has implanted in humankind?  If you can, take the opportunity of visiting the Niagara Falls area as Gary and I did in November. You must tour the Niagara Parks Power Station, now open to the public.  “For 100 years, this power station harnessed the...

Our ever-busy backyard squirrels are very excited every fall.  There is a tall walnut tree in our neighbour’s yard that produces many a walnut which becomes a windfall for the squirrels that love them.  As you know, walnut trees are known for their valuable wood and stain plus I received a good price for a bushel of walnuts from the tree in our first parsonage in...

Recently I decided to create a new word, “Bibleless” – at least it is new to me.  I discovered that that four-letter suffix “less”, meaning without, has been attached to numerous words to become helpless, Godless, useless, clueless, hopeless, worthless and so on.  All these terms seem to describe countless people who have no knowledge of the Bible and therefore have...

Gary has been busy the last number of Saturday mornings creating a new walkway from our back porch to our barn where he has his workshop and office.  We discovered we had quite a few flagstones on our property so all we needed to purchase was several bags of limestone to build the foundation up and bags of pea gravel to go between the stones.  It took a bit of...

It was a warm, beautiful blue-sky day.  Gary and I were out boating on the Moose River with our son Rob, his wife Jess and granddaughter, Bella to find some bald eagles during our visit north.  All of a sudden, we spotted several large white-headed birds with dark brown bodies flying out from the evergreens in the distance. These strong creatures of God looked so...

Have you ever seen a field of buckwheat growing with tiny white flowers?  It’s beautiful!  Gary and I visited the Lavender Farm just outside of Milton recently – one of our favourite spots.  Near a field of purple lavender buckwheat had been planted on well-drained soil.  The contrast between the purple and white was lovely.  I have never...

“Hey buddy!  Slow down and don’t be so noisy!”  I was yelling at a little brown wren perched on our seed station just outside our kitchen window.  He was twittering at the top of his lungs with his mouth wide open, flapping his wings and then flitting back and forth to the spruce trees at the side of our house. He just kept singing and singing and...