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Be Governed by one another’s strengths not by one another’s weaknesses. Ponder that idea. But before we go there, ever heard the expression, “Who’s wearing the pants in your family?” Well, let’s pause and ponder that for a moment… I don’t wanna talk about it. Marriage, members of a Board of Directors, Teams of anyContinue reading “Pants”

I really appreciate the sermons of a preacher from long ago! Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Some of the words he uses have gone out of date, for instance he uses the word “cordial” which is what was the name Olde English types gave to what we refer to as a prescription or medicine. All of hisContinue reading “The Comforter”

“Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.” Proverbs 4:25

In high school Art Class, I had a very good teacher. Mr Randy Marchinko. He challenged me. One assignment was to do a grid drawing in pencil. The picture up there is the result. I took a not so random photo from magazines he had provided, in that I enjoyed cycling, and over top ofContinue reading “Sprocket”

I pondered my Bunnies post a little. Didn’t I write something about being tempted to be joyful a few days ago? Here it is… So, the worry and anxiety submerges to reappear as dark humour a few days later. My life, my story, was not and is not a happily ever after story. That said,Continue reading “Bunnies revisited”

But then one day, something went wrong The Bunnies were all gone Let me explain Daily, as I pulled into the stop at 10th and Vine, the bunnies would line the grassy slopes all ‘round Quietly they munched on the dewy grasses there My passenger would alight, I’d give one last glance at the peacefulContinue reading “Bunnies”

The wife who went astray is standing at my door standing in the rain hair dishevelled hanging down hair that veiled her eyes Those down cast eyes dripping water on my carpet “I’m sorry”, she said, “I’m back!”, she said, then, shivering, fell to the floor, just inside my door I tucked and rolled herContinue reading “A Time For Every purpose under heaven.”

My brother, Andrew, noted an unintentional allusion to T S Eliot “Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed upContinue reading “Compared”

Sparrows What do they mean? What do they need? Darting in bullet flash flightTo secretive nestsUnder oriental rooftops Wherein lies the family? Nests? Eternally grateful that I am aliveAnd demonstratively graspingThese such scenes of natural beauty A. W. Brand

I saved a key from a precious place, never intending to ever go there again, but knowing that I could had been a comfort to me. Today as I rummaged through all of my saved treasures, I realized that that house had been torn down, and the key was no longer a key to anything,Continue reading “It’s not a Key”