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Ocean Waves

Matthew 8 v 27.The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!” Ocean waves can be awesome in size and power. Sailors have measured waves at 60 feet, higher than most houses. In 1933 the Navy tanker Ramapo was hit by a wave 112…

Contrasts

When I was out just after breakfast on a calm and clear October morning recently, I was struck by the contrasts in the scene depicted in this photograph. There was little cloud cover but what there was ranged in colour. The foreground of recently worked cereal stubble hid the newly drilled crop and dominated, but…

Honey

For my breakfast about three or four times a week I have honey on my toast. I prefer the soft honey and it must be, for me, local Suffolk Honey. I love it.  However, it is twofold as I suffer from hay fever from grasses in the summer.  It doesn’t work for everyone, but I…

Books, Books, Books!

Books! Books! Books! Hardcovers and paperbacks. Reference works and joke books. Romantic novels and mysteries. Self-help books and religious publications. They just keep appearing and we keep buying them. We also keep writing them. No wonder Solomon said, “Of making many books there is no end “(Eccl. 12 v 12). Jill Briscoe was addressing a…