For those of us who are old enough, you may recall John Denver’s ballad from 1986, ‘Some Days are Diamonds’. The words keep circulating in my head, ‘some days are diamonds, some days are stone, some times the hard times won’t leave me alone.’ We’ve all had those days, some ...

Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. Lilly’s father had died of cancer when she was just a wee girl, perhaps 4 or 5. Too young to ever know him well. Her mother, the family always commented, was ...

I recently ran into an old friend; we hadn’t seen each other for years. ‘Let’s catch up over a coffee’ she blurted to me enthusiastically. And I agreed wholeheartedly that that would be wonderful. And then we parted, going our separate ways. Did she intend to carry through on her ...

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. There’s an alarming phenomenon growing in Australia that is reaching pandemic proportions. More and more baby boomers are selling up ...

Philippians 2:3-4 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. “You would make a great school chaplain” a friend at church ...