Author Archives: Stu Branston

‘Walking Palm Tree’ photo by Image Person, own work, CC BY 4.0. Well, YES!!  So to speak….In the dense tropical rainforest’s competitive ecosystem, sunlight and nutrients are hard to come by.  There is a Palm Tree nicknamed ‘The Walking Tree’ because of its ability to ‘move’ along the forest floor by adjusting its roots.  Its roots form aContinue reading “THE WALKING TREE?”

‘Sawgrass’ photo by permission of the photographer, Jeff Pippen. Nasty!  There is definitely a message here.   Sawgrass is named for the sharp-toothed edge of its leaf blades.  These teeth are made of silica and very sharp!  (See photo above).  I could include pictures of bloody arms and legs of people who walk through them, but I didn’t want toContinue reading “SAWGRASS!”

             Aardvark’ by Ucumari Photography is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0.   This post is a follow-up to last weeks post, ‘Skunk Cabbage’. It is another good and interesting word from the ‘Book of Nature’ about helping the homeless!!!! They say Aardvarks are a bizarre hybrid between a kangaroo, pig and vacuum cleaner!  (See photo above)! There are fossilContinue reading “AARDVARK!”

 Skunk Cabbage’ photo by Nicholas A. Tonelli on PxHere. Seems like the homeless shelter folks have been reading the Book of Nature!  I think they got their inspiration from the Skunk Cabbage!!!  (See photo above). This unique plant is one of the first plants to bloom in the (very) early spring.  They have a built-in heater that helps themContinue reading “SKUNK CABBAGE!”

Photo by Marie-Lan Tay Pamart own work, CC 4.0 on Wikimedia. What?  Never heard of it!  Can you imagine throwing yourself on an ant hill?  Ugh.  Apparently, more than 200 species of birds do just that!  (See photo above of the crow covered in ants).  The ants, as a defensive behavior spray formic acid on the bird’s feathers which acts asContinue reading “ANTING!”

   ‘Strangler Fig Tree’ photo by Svetlana Egorova, own work, CC BY-SA 4.0.  The ‘strangler fig tree’, native to the coastal areas of South Florida, the Keys and the West Indies is a parasitical plant that begins its life as a sticky seed deposited high up in the canopy of a tree by birds or monkeys.  TheContinue reading “THE STRANGLER!”

Pomgamia Tree photo by Tatiana Gerus (Tatters) is licensed under ShareAlike CC BY-SA 2.0.        Scientists are calling Pongamia trees, native to Indonesia ‘Miracle Trees’!  (See photo above). They are miraculous for a variety of reasons. They can grow on almost any land no matter how rocky or degraded the soil is because they have the abilityContinue reading “MIRACLE TREE – MIRACLE YOU!!!”

Don’t you just love metaphor?  Definition: a thing  regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.   As I said before, the natural world, The Book of Nature, is one gigantic metaphor!  Salt is no exception.  (See ‘salt’ photo above by Jane Gonzales on Unsplash.)  Salt is a preservative; a substance used to preserve food against decay.  It draws out the water in food and without water,Continue reading “SALT!”

Box Jellyfish at Bakoven Rock by Peter Southwood is licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.                                                              I happened upon the words to a very familiar and famous hymn the other day, ‘This is my Father’s World’.And I said to myself, “Oh yah?”  Is it really?  As I am writing these posts, I am beginning to see clearly the way thingsContinue reading “BOX JELLYFISH!”

 ‘Poison Dart Frog’ photo by Dimitry on Unsplash. Have you ever seen these beautiful frogs?  (See photo above.)  They come in many bright colors, yellow, orange, red, green, gold and blue!!!  You just want to touch them….I wouldn’t recommend it, they are called ‘Poison Dart Frogs’ for a reason.  Their name comes from their use by hunters who coatContinue reading “BEAUTIFUL FROGS?”

‘Oh Hey There’ photo © Per-Ola Norman / Wikimedia Commons. A Mola Mola is an Ocean Sunfish that can weigh over 2000 pounds!!!!  It can be 10 feet long and up to 8 feet high!!!!!  It is named after the Latin word for a ‘millstone’, because that is what it looks like!  (See photo above).  It has a grayContinue reading “HOLA (HOLY) MOLA!”

 Female Jumping Spider by Raw Pixel CCO         Do you have a fear of spiders?  If you do, you are not alone.  According to The British Psychological Society, an estimated 6% of the general population suffer from full-blown arachnophobia.  (A fear of spiders).  What is amazing is some people have them as pets!!!   Especially the Jumping Spider.  (See how cute they areContinue reading “SUPER SPIDER!”

Our Christmas cactus is exploding like fireworks with blooms in celebration of the season.  Photo by my wife, Kris!  I can almost hear it singing and shouting, ‘O holy night!  The stars are brightly shining.  Oh night divine!  Let all within us praise His holy name!  It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth!!!!!!’ Is it any wonder?  The people whoContinue reading “IT’S CHRISTMAS!!!”

I am writing these posts because, in the words of the psalmist, David, ‘Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.  One generation commends (His) works to another; they tell of (His) mighty acts.  (I want to) speak of the glorious splendor of (His) majesty— (so that we) will meditate on (anotherContinue reading “RHYTHM!!!”

Peacock by Ricardo Frantz on Unsplash. There aren’t many things that are more beautiful than the colorful feathers of a male peacock!  Their tail feathers can be up to five feet in length and expand like a fan. (see photo above).  But these feathers and their beauty come with a price.  They are heavy.  Yes, he can fly,Continue reading “PROUD AS A PEACOCK!”

       ‘Indigo Snake’ photo by Dirk Stevenson. ‘The Texas Indigo Snake Eats Rattlers for Breakfast’, said the article in the Texas Monthly.  (See photo above).It’s true.  This snake’s main diet is venomous snakes!  No wonder the farmers and ranchers love them!  What an incredible metaphor!  Isaiah prophesied about the coming of our Lord Jesus and said, ‘He will SWALLOW up death forever.’   Isaiah 25:8.    AndContinue reading “INDIGO!”

   Redwood tree by Nickolay Maslov on Unsplash. Oh Lord my GodWhen I, in awesome wonderConsider all the worlds Thy hands have madeI see the stars, (I see the trees), I hear the rolling thunderThy power throughout the universe displayedThen sings my soul, my Savior God to TheeHow great Thou art, how great Thou art!!!!’ Ever think about howContinue reading “TURGOR!”

                                   Photo Montage created by my son Nick! God has given us life, a body to live in…with the ability to experience love, joy, peace, goodness, faith…hearing, sight, touch, smell, taste.  The ability to speak, feel and remember. The ability to give and receive the love of friends and family, of dogs, cats, parakeets, parrots. He hasContinue reading “GIVE THANKS!”

   Photo by Ricardo Gomez on Unsplash. It’s that time of the year!Did you ever wonder why the leaves of trees turn such beautiful colors in the Fall? The leaves are experiencing death and it’s beautiful.The tree itself lives to see another day. So it is with us!  Our outer self, our physical body will die, butContinue reading “THE STING OF DEATH?”

Can you believe it?  It only took God six days to complete the heavens and the earth in all their vast array!  ‘By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so, on the seventh day he rested.  Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested fromContinue reading “THE 7th DAY!”

‘Tide Pooling’ by Jurvetson is licensed under CC BY 2.0.   Tide pools, those pockets of saltwater left behind by the tide are fascinating, especially to children.  Is it any wonder?  According to Kids.kiddle.com, Encyclopedia for kids, about 300,000 species inhabit these pools in what is called the Intertidal Zone where the sea meets land.  This complex marine ecosystem isContinue reading “THE CLEANSING!”

Dew photo by Duong-thinh on Unsplash. Water molecules stick together!!!  What is really weird, is the fact that they stick together with even greater cohesion on the surface of the water.  It is called ‘surface tension’.  These are the facts as revealed by scientists.  What they don’t say is why they stick together!  Of course, the Bible has the ultimateContinue reading “SURFACE TENSION!”

Stump photo by Patrick Stillhart on Unsplash. Job in the bible made an observation from the ‘Book of Nature’.  He said, ‘At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.  Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump dieContinue reading “‘SHOOTS LIKE A PLANT!’”

‘Grapes’ by Maja Petric on Unsplash. Jesus wants to make you into a fine wine, fit for a King.  He begins talking about this in John 15. Jesus said, ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.  He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bearContinue reading “NEW WINE!”

‘Wilderness of Stars’ by Nick Mealey is licensed under CC BY 2.0. We were watching a movie on television.  In the movie, an old woman and a young boy were looking at the stars.  She said to the young boy, “Did you know that some of the stars you see tonight are already dead!”  In other words, theContinue reading “STARS!”

Photo by MRB.  If you can read ‘The Book of Nature’, you will find powerful messages EVERYWHERE! This spider, in the corner of my friend’s bathroom (see photo above) sent me a poignant message!  It has woven its web where it is unlikely any bug will ever travel.  He’s going to starve if he stays where heContinue reading “WISDOM!”

 Photo of my grandson’s finger by Nick Branston. Isn’t it amazing how our body has the ability to heal itself?  Ever watched it happen?  If you have, the process of healing will fill you with wonder and gratitude!  As King David wrote in Psalm 139:14, ‘I praise you (God) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your worksContinue reading “HEAL THYSELF!”

‘Bury your head in the sand’ by Sander van der Wel is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. My grandboys showed me a small puddle in a dried creek bed.  There were several fish in it barely alive in the stagnant water.  Had they known, seen ‘the big picture’, they could have escaped their fate by swimming downContinue reading “THE BIG PICTURE!”

Photo from YouTube video featured below, ‘How a scuba diver found a good friend under the sea!’ ‘This is my Fathers World’.  “Oh yah?”  Yes, God created the world and everything in it, but it is now under the dominion (control) of the devil.  Look around you, watch the news.  Whose attributes do you see?  Yes you see God’s attributes,Continue reading “A GLIMPSE!”

 ‘Tadpoles’ by Rvacapinter is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Tadpoles are fascinating!  Did you ever spend time on your hands and knees as a child watching them swim about in some pond or at the lake shore?  I watched them for days!  They start out as a bunch of gooey eggs in the water, sometimes as many asContinue reading “TADPOLES!”

The European Large Blue Butterfly photo by PJC& Co.  Own Work, CC BY SA 3.0. Another great metaphor from ‘The Book of Nature’! The European Large Blue Butterfly shown above contains a message that could change the world!!!!  I just read the following NBC News headline, like so many we are reading these days: ‘Thirty to fiftyContinue reading “BLUE BUTTERFLY!”

    Black and white photo by David Adamson on Unsplash Did you ever notice that life in this world is one big dichotomy?  Everything everywhere has an opposite!  There is love, but also hate.  There is good and bad.  There is joy and sadness.  There is peace and strife.  There is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  What is this world telling us?Continue reading “DICOTOMOUS!”

Mole Photo by Ahmad Kanbar on Unsplash Do you like moles?  Doubt it.  They are considered pests, because they make giant mounds in your pristine (?) yard.  You can’t see them, because they live underground, but you can see their effects…the incriminating mounds.  Some people work frantically to rid themselves of these yard wreckers.  Moles pose an interesting metaphor.                 Continue reading “MOLE METAPHOR!”

 ‘Blue Button’ jelly fish photo by Emma Camp. Deception, the act of deceiving someone, seems to be a universal metaphor in The Book of Nature.  I was inspired to think about this by the ‘Blue Button’ jelly fish.  (See photo above and link to U Tube video below).  It is beautiful, but don’t be deceived, you can’t touch it,Continue reading “DECEPTION!”

   ‘Desert Packrat in a Century Plant’ by Jules Jardin is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Isn’t it cute?  Could God have created a pack rat just to poke fun at the human condition?  Pack rats just love shiny things.  If they see a shiny, silver gum wrapper they can’t wait to take it back to their nest.  ButContinue reading “PACK RAT!”

‘Happy as a Pig in Mud’ by Mr. Simon Woods is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Pigs just love mud!  But there is a reason.  Pigs have no sweat glands.  The average person has 2 million!!  The soles of your feet and the palms of you hand contain more sweat glands than any other part of your body.  OneContinue reading “MUDDYPIGGIE!”

‘Ripples’ photo by Herbert Goetsch on Unsplash. Ripples, those beautiful, concentric circles you see on the surface of the water.  It only takes one small rock to make them and out the ripples go seemingly forever!  They are every child’s delight! We tend to think that our actions have no effect on anyone, but don’t the ripplesContinue reading “RIPPLES!”

          Photo by Gage Walker on Unsplash. Open up my eyes in wonder……….Most of us take rain for granted….We don’t really think about it.  You will, if you ever try to keep your plants green with a watering can when it hasn’t rained for a while!  And then, with one rainfall, everything revives, and your plants areContinue reading “GOD’S WATERING CAN!”

  ‘Mayfly’ by David Mackerel is licensed under CC BY 2.0   God is doing it again!!!  He is speaking to us through ‘The Book of Nature’ about the critical importance of and spectacular opportunity to be regenerated, to be reborn!!!  He has said the same thing countless times through physical birth, the metamorphosis of a butterfly, the germinationContinue reading “WATER BORN!”

‘Armadillo’ by Rich Anderson is licensed under CC BY-NC SA 2.0. ‘TEXAS SPEED BUMPS’!A funny nick name for an armadillo, the official state animal of Texas!  It’s probably because they are serious roadkill all over that state!   Unfortunately, when they are startled, they jump 3-4 feet straight up!!  So, if they happen to be under a moving vehicle, this instinctContinue reading “ARMADILLO!”

                                              Photo by Art Rachen on Unsplash.                                                                              Don’t you just love it!  A picnic isn’t a picnic without a juicy watermelon!  Did you ever wonder how the water inside our fruits and vegetables can be consumable regardless of where they are grown?  We eat our fruits and vegetables without thinking about it.  But it is truly a miracle!!  It is anotherContinue reading “WATERMELLON!”

 ‘Snapdragons’ by form, PX Here. Have you ever squeezed a snapdragon?  It’s great fun.  The flower appears to open its mouth when you squeeze it laterally.   It looks like the mouth of a dragon, hence its name.   They come in a wide variety of colors, pink, purple, lavender, white, yellow, orange or burgundy and range in height fromContinue reading “SNAPDRAGONS!”

 ‘Gray Squirrel’ by Chandler Cruttenden on Unsplash. Squirrels are everywhere!  Ever wonder why they start to cross the street in front of your car, then run to the side of the road and suddenly reappear, sometimes to their own demise?  (thump, thump.) This zigzag, dancing behavior is instinctual!  It works great when a squirrel is trying not toContinue reading “SQUIRRELS!”

It’s SPRING! The turtles are on the move again, so I wanted to share this post. “Eastern Box Turtle crossing the Parkway Motor Road – Give Him A Brake” by blueridgeparkwaynps is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.  Ever seen a turtle cross the road like the above photo?  It’s quite a common sight in Oklahoma.  TheyContinue reading “TURTLES END!”

 ‘My backyard’ Photo by MRB I look out my window at my backyard and I see oak trees, azaleas, flowering plants, grass and weeds, lots of weeds and ask myself why none of it is edible!  Well, maybe a dandelion.  Have you ever asked why so many plants and the fruit of trees in this worldContinue reading “EDIBLE?”

     ‘Lactobacillus Bacteria’ by Polaristest is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Life is just not what it seems.  Do you realize that at this very moment, your body is teeming with BACTERIA!  Its ALIVE!  And its everywhere!  Scientists say that an average human body, (they call the reference man), 20-30 years old, weighing 154 pounds and 5’7 inches tall, has 30Continue reading “THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!”

    ‘Winter Footsteps in the Sand’ by Daniel Schuldi on Unsplash.      They lay for miles                                                                                                                                     These footsteps in the sandWe all leave them Our histories intertwined Visible or invisibleThey all lead to an inevitable endWashed or blown awayNever to be seen again!    MRB  Footsteps in the sand are fascinating!   You hear yourself saying, ‘Someone has been here!  Who were they?  Where wereContinue reading “FOOTSTEPS!”

‘Meadowlark’ by Jeffery Hamilton on Unsplash. It’s SPRING!!!  Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.  Song of Songs 2:12. I was at Ziggler’s art store in Tulsa, suddenly a songbird started to sing.  It was beautiful and unexpected and moved me to write the followingContinue reading “SONGBIRD!”

  ‘Earthworm’ by Arthur Chapman is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Did you ever wonder why earthworms end up on the sidewalk after a rainstorm? Did you ever try to rescue them and put them back on the grass, (silly worms)? Moles find these worms a delicacy!  An earthworm can feel them coming because the moleContinue reading “WORM ON A WALK!”

IT’S EASTER! Photo by MRB. The Amaryllis Belladonna pictured above, is a perfect, God given metaphor of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ!!!  Here is a plant that grows a giant cluster of leaves in the early spring.  You ask yourself, ‘hey, where are the blooms?’  Then the leaves wither and die!  You think it’s over.  And thenContinue reading “AMARYLLIS BELLADONNA!”

(A fresh look at Good Friday)  ‘Tree taps’ by Maine_Mike is licensed BY-NC-ND-2.0 What would pancakes be without maple syrup?  Do you realize that a maple tree has to be wounded to produce the sap necessary for this prized liquid?  Sound familiar?  Jesus was ‘wounded for our transgressions’. Isaiah 53:5 And the blood and water that flowed outContinue reading “MMM MAPLE SYRUP!”

God is omnipresent, ‘widely or constantly encountered’.  He is everywhere at once!  I wanted to write a post to remind you to look around you…in your home, yard, at the park.  You’ll see the work of His hands everywhere!  Everyday you’ll see something different, something amazing.  Could be something as simple as a reflection on the wall from your levolors.  Continue reading “OMNIPRESENT!”

‘Birds’ photo by Ian Livesey on StockSnap.         Watching the birds in amazement, I wrote this poem… How easily he feedsThe multitude of birdsHeld in the balanceBy a few seeds Redbird, RobinFinch and Sparrow Take notice my fearful heartYou are moreThan these. According to AZ Animals, ‘there are 50 billion birds in the world!!!!’                               Yet GodContinue reading “A FEW SEEDS!”

 Photo by Ethan Robertson on unsplash. Did you know that plants make their own food?  All they need is water through the roots, carbon dioxide from the air, and light energy from the sun to perform photosynthesis and make glucose, a form of sugar that plants need to survive. The bi-product of this process is oxygen,Continue reading “THE EXCHANGE!”

 Photo by Ankith Choudh on Unsplash                          Don’t you just love honeybees???  Well, we love them for what they do for us not so much for their sting that’s for sure!  Do you realize that they pollinize 80 percent of all the trees, flowers, fruits and vegetables in the world!   GLORY BEE!  Without pollination, plants and trees would not beContinue reading “SWEETER THAN HONEY!”

 ‘Rainbow’ or ‘Lilac-Breasted’ roller bird photo by Sharifa Jinnah.                               I saw what I considered the most beautiful image I’ve ever seen.  (See photo above).  It is called a ‘Rainbow Roller Bird’.  It inspired me to write this post.  Doesn’t it fill you with AWE?  (a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder).  Can’t you just see Jesus with a paintContinue reading “GOD’S PAINT BRUSH!”

‘Baby Opossum – on Street’ by Vicky TGAW is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Opossums are everywhere.  It’s the Virginia opossum here in the U.S.A…  (See photo above of cute baby.)  We see a lot of them in Oklahoma, even in our backyard!  We used to see a young man walking along the highway with a pet one wrappedContinue reading “PLAYING POSSUM!”

It’s almost Valentines day! I am republishing this post just for this special day! ‘Lovebirds’ Shutterstock photo. Love is in the air! Look at the pair of Lovebirds above! These Lovebirds are extremely loving creatures! They preen each other, kiss and even feed each other (like an overly affectionate couple in a restaurant on Valentine’sContinue reading “LOVEBIRDS!”

As a followup to my last post, ‘MANATEES’, which I hope you all finally received, I’ve decided to continue talking about the ‘invasive species’ in our lives, ‘The Serpent.’ Green snake photo by Santa Maria de Dota on Unsplash Do you have an aversion to snakes or even fear them?  You are not alone.  A 2009 reportContinue reading “THE SERPENT.”

Sorry, Word Press is having issues with their website and some subscribers did not receive this post….I am reposting for those who did not receive this post.  ‘Manatee’ by Maegan Luckiesh on Unsplash.                                             Aren’t they cute!  They are also called ‘sea cows’, because of their size and the fact that they eat grass.  Only in this case,Continue reading “MANATEES!!”

I apologize on behalf of WordPress who had technical issues with publishing my posts this week.      ‘Manatee’ by Maegan Luckiesh on Unsplash.                                             Aren’t they cute!  They are also called ‘sea cows’, because of their size and the fact that they eat grass.  Only in this case, sea grass.  These ‘sea cows’ can be up to 13 feet longContinue reading “MANATEES!”

 ‘Desert beetle’ photo by James Anderson is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.     The desert beetle pictured above goes to a lot of trouble to get a drink of water! It lives in the Namib desert of Africa where water is extremely rare.  However, because of the conditions off the coast of this desert, an ocean fog appearsContinue reading “DESERT BEETLE!”

Photo by zoe-reeve-9hSejnboeTY on Unsplash. Would you believe that elephants weighing up to 13,000 pounds are terrified of bees?  Itty bitty bees!  Although an elephant has a two-inch-thick skin, bees can still sting them in the soft tissue around their eyes, mouth and at the end of their trunk.  If they see or hear a swarm of bees,Continue reading “DAVID AND GOLIATH?”

‘Sunrise’. A photo by Ravi Sharma on Unsplash.  The rising and the setting of the sun is the greatest, most all-encompassing, worldwide metaphor God ever gave us.  EVERYDAY, everyone who is alive in this world experiences the rising and setting of the sun, whether they see it or not.  As the earth rotates in its orbit, itContinue reading “SUNRISE, SUNSET!”

 Photo by Biljana Martinic on Unsplash. I was standing in front of an aquarium watching this beautiful Angelfish and I had a thought, believe it or not!  And wrote this poem: AQUARIA.            Golden angelAquaria sustainedThere you are…noThere you are Radiant beautyGraceFor meSo dependent uponAnother’s hand Do you know thisDo we?                                                               The child in the above photoContinue reading “AQUARIA.”

Our Christmas cactus is exploding like fireworks with blooms in celebration of the season.  Photo by my wife, Kris!  I can almost hear it singing and shouting, ‘O holy night!  The stars are brightly shining.  Oh night divine!  Let all within us praise His holy name!  It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth!!!!!!’ Is it any wonder?  The people whoContinue reading “IT’S CHRISTMAS!!!”

Free image from PxHere Our favorite Christmas parasite!!  How in the world did a parasite become our Christmas kissing plant?  Apparently, someone was hard-up for decorations and noticed the green foliage and white berries in the middle of winter and brought it in their house.  (And started kissing).   Mistletoe is a parasitical plant that attacks living trees.  You’veContinue reading “MISTLETOE!”

Picfair photo:  white wake of speed boat, Aegean Sea, Greece.       Mathematics can certainly be beautiful! Ever seen the above equation for a boat wake? Check out my title for this post. I noticed the beauty of a boat wake and wrote this poem: Here lies the bayAll calm and blissWhen enters one manIn a boat and this TheContinue reading “V PHASE=SQRT(G*LAMBDA/2PI)”

 ‘African Impala’ photo by Birger Strahl on Unsplash. The magnificent African Impala pictured above can leap over ten feet high and jump a distance greater than 30 feet.  Yet this animal can be kept in a zoo enclosure with only a 3-foot wall!  WHY?  Because they won’t jump if they can’t see where their feet will land.  This instinctualContinue reading “BY FAITH!”

  Photo by Alexei Chiznov on PxHere. Truth is, it was never in God’s plan for you to be alone!  In the very beginning He said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.  I will make a helper suitable for him”.  Genesis 2:18 Again, in Psalm 68:6. ‘God sets the lonely in families.’  Have you everContinue reading “THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!”

  Photo by mi-nu-NcMiOehj-on unsplash. Look at that silly horse!  Looks like he even broke a fence board to get to the grass on the other side.  ‘The grass is always greener on the other side.’  It’s the same grass!  There’s a message here somewhere, don’t you think? I once heard a sermon called, ‘He got what he wanted, andContinue reading “‘THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER!’”

Photo by MRB I was sitting at a table on the deck of a good friend having a cup of coffee when an autumn leaf fell on the table right in front of me.  I recorded my thoughts and feelings in a poem. It came from aboveTo the tableFor meThis leaf landscape of all He isSpeakingContinue reading “THE GIFT!”

     ‘Adorable kitten sitting on the floor’ by Onur Binay on Unsplash. We are cat lovers!  And we are not alone.  There are (according to the Georgia Veterinary Association) 88 million cats and ONLY 75 million dogs in America!  We love cats because they keep themselves clean!  (NO doggie baths)!  They cover their poo and believe it or not, are capableContinue reading “CATS!!!”