Each fall I stand streamside witnessing a phenomenon of endurance, navigation, and sacrifice that speaks of our Maker’s incomprehensible omniscience.  Documented and explained by science, the divine mystery of the ‘omni’ factor remains inexplicable.  After years of nomadic wandering the oceans, fraught with perilous predators, salmon return to the exact site where they began life…

“Be still and know I am God” (Ps.46:10 ) . This blessed reality is mine each time I leave the frenzied, borderline chaos of our ‘refined civilization’ to wander the forests, mountains and seas amidst the calm solitude of His ‘unrefined creation’. It’s there my soul is at peace as He silently reveals ceaseless wonders…

The creative talent of artisans able to chisel blocks of ice into glistening, frozen smooth curves of art ever amazes me.  My ice sculpting skill level remains confined to an ice cube tray. Yet, this world’s most skilled ice sculptors are no match for the Master. The same incomprehensible, omnipotent Creator who numbered, named, and…

A sense of insignificance and smallness envelops me whenever standing at the foot of a towering, snow-capped mountain, or watching a sunset’s glowing hues spread across the heavens . . . the incomprehensible work of the Creator. Then I recall the “…fearfully and wonderfully made…” creation He literally loved to death on a cross some…

  Happy July 4th! . . . a greeting so many of us will exchange today, but how often do we fully grasp and appreciate the freedom July 4th signifies? . . . a freedom paid for with blood . . . a precious freedom our service men and women continue to pay daily for…

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost Pretty much my life’s modus operandi, sometimes, regretfully, leading to deep valleys, but often, undeservedly, raising me to mountain heights. Decades ago I took road less travelled to The Last…

Sharp Mt. on the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway is a 4,000 ft. peak overlooking the Peaks of Otter resort.  As the pics attest, the trail to the top is a fairly steep, 1.5 mile rocky climb, worthy of every grunt and groan to reach the summit and view the 360 degree spectacular panorama of creation.…

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die” – Ecc.3:1-2 Keep Looking Up is an encouraging refrain, but a recent hike had me gazing downward. Soon to be extinguished by forest giants’ leafy canopy, dappled patches of sunshine bathe…

What are the first two words that come to mind when you see this koi?  In Japanese, koi is a homophone for another word that means “affection” or “love”; koi are therefore symbols of love and friendship in Japan. I must admit these weren’t the two descriptors that popped into mind as I stood at the…

March 21st, the first day of Spring, made its appearance in snowflakes . . . not exactly what most had hoped for.   On the mountaintop the silent, pristine white beauty  sketched across the Smokies put my soul at peace, knowing that in all of creation, “Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O…