Category: Devotionals

      (You’ll find the rest of this devotional series on my author’s page.)   Wood has a special warmth to it. Unlike other artistic mediums like stone or clay, wood has life. While the wood was yet part of a tree, roots absorbed water and nutrients from the soil, sap flowed through the …

    Morgan was a good friend of our family. He died recently but he often came for Sunday dinner after church and joined our family for holidays like Thanksgiving and Easter. Sometimes he brought a gift of candy or a book, but the gift I enjoyed the most was an intricate set of nested …

  Back again?  So glad you came!  Here’s the eighth devotional in my series on woodworking.   My cousin built a little desk made of solid cherry wood. Soft pine would have been easier to carve, but when a pen pressed down on the writing surface, a dent would remain. The cherry wood’s hard surface …

    Here’s the seventh in my series of devotionals on woodworking.  The rest of this series can be found on my author page!  Enjoy!   Every piece of wood has a will of its own, a unique grain. A skilled woodworker will examine a piece of wood carefully to ascertain the direction of the …

  Welcome back!  Here is the sixth in my devotional series on  woodworking.  Enjoy!   My cousin discovered a treasure. He found wonderful pieces of air-dried walnut wood lying forgotten in a neighbor’s barn. To the neighbor, the wood represented old logs with little value, but my cousin took them home, scraped off the bark …

    The fifth in my series of devotionals on woodworking. Keep coming back because there are lots more to come!   My cousin presented one of his handmade salad bowls to me last Christmas. How I treasure it! Every time I take it down from the shelf and serve guests, I think of him. …

    Here’s the third in my current series of devotionals on woodworking. Keep coming back as I’ll be posting a new thought each week!   Where others are talented with tools, I am hopeless when it comes to working with wood. I have no patience or skills. Years ago, I tried to make a …

  Here is the second of the new series of devotionals on woodworking.  Enjoy!   My cousin David is a woodworker, so one day when he came to visit, I took him to our local library so he could see samples of the woodworking techniques of a master craftsman named Moses Ransom. Ransom designed complex …

  This blog entry is the start of a new devotional series for my readers.  I wrote the devotionals some years ago about my cousin and his woodworking hobby.  My cousin now resides in a dementia unit at a nearby nursing home where I am able to visit weekly.  I still pray for him and …