God’s Christmas Tree

There’s only one kind of Christmas tree for me.  These days, it seems that endless varieties of Christmas trees abound.  Small firs perch unobtrusively on tabletops.  Artificial trees offer a realistic look (without a realistic...

Words with the Wilds

The Wild Brothers (left to right)–Asher, Kian, Morgan, and Hudson. “For [God’s] invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.  So...

Truth from the Trail Camera

My trail camera setup is constantly improving. Here, I’m constructing a bait station with mineral blocks. Years ago, my parents came to a rural area of Arkansas and bought twenty-six acres of land in a small town where people are scarce and wilderness is...

Persimmon Prophecies

Let me introduce you today to a very special tree.  It’s a massive one on the western border of our property, sprawled comfortably with dangling limbs and a broad trunk.  It was there over thirty years ago when my parents first bought this land,...

Lesson from Leaves

“ ‘A magic time of year,’ Caddie called it to herself.  She loved both spring and fall.  At the turning of the year things seemed to stir in her that were lost sight of in the commonplace stretches of winter and summer.” – Caddie Woodlawn, Carol...