On one of my go-to hikes near my home, there are three rocks, and on each rock is a tree. It reminds me of the three crosses at Golgotha.


On one of my go-to hikes near my home, there are three rocks, and on each rock is a tree. It reminds me of the three crosses at Golgotha.


Matthew 10:29 NIV Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. My brother, his wife, my sister, and I took our Dad on a genealogy road trip. Traveling with your adult siblings might not be on everyone’s bucket list, but we…
Psalm 119:11-12 NIVI have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.Praise be to you, Lord; teach me your decrees. I live in wildfire country. History is riddled with horrific tales of fires. According to Earth.org, “The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin started on October 8, 1871 and burned around 1.2…
Willamette National Forest, OR Revelation 3:15-16 CSB I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth. I often hear people say, “Wait five minutes….the weather…
Military Working Dog Teams National Monument, San Antonio, TX Ephesians 6:17 NLT Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Would you head to work without your shoes? My mom laughingly would recount the story about my first day of kindergarten. When I arrived…
Who Am I? Camp Polk Cemetery, Sisters, OR As the Apostle Paul, teaching the lessons of Jesus Christ, wrote in Ephesians 2:19: Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household. On a crisp fall day in 1905, a young cowboy walked into the…
Whychus Creek Overlook, Sisters, OR John 16:33 NIV I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. “Being sold down the river,” is a term coined during a dark time in American history, and literally…