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After seasons of warmth, the growing season, the harvest and the beauty that is autumn (in which I relished for an extended season from Quebec to home feasting on the colors and refreshing cool) we enter winter with its attendant palpable gloomy gray days. It’s a time when we begin to long for the better seasons. But this season offers a needed quiet, a respite from labors. Freed from many daily outdoor chores and activities. It is a time to nourish our interior life, our spi

This psalm reveals God’s judgment of the wicked as opposed to the outcome of those who remain pure in heart and continue to seek God.  The writer (presumably David) may have been thinking about doing something that God had forbidden, for in verse 2 he says, “But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold”. The writer had looked around and noticed that some people seemed to “have it all” with no apparent problems, great prosperity and good health. He

Psalm 23 is one of those chapters in the Bible that truly encompasses the greatness of God and what He does for each and every one of us. It’s a psalm that we are taught as children because, in a way, it is a very simple explanation of who God is. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” So often we refer to the Lord as our shepherd, but how often do we really consider the weight of that fact. Being a shepherd means being responsible for feeding and tending to the sheep.