Moses by Carole B. Weatherford The book, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. by Carole Boston Weatherford, should be on everyone’s reading list. Harriet Tubman was so brave to try to run away from slavery all alone. But she wasn’t all alone, because God was with her. She could talk to God when she was afraid and God always answered with words that helped her to be strong. She was helped along the way by Christian people, especially from
A group of writers, mostly from Australia, undertake an annual Month of Poetry in January. Writers from all over push themselves to write a poem every day. Some days we crank out surprisingly nice poems while other days, well you could say it just stinks… But there’s something envigorating about having made the daily effort. We’ve passed the half-way point in the month so I thought I would share a few of my hurriedly
An example of a Thaumatrope Back in the days when children often made their own toys, they made thaumatropes. This was a simple art form designed to fool the eyes into combining two pictures into one composite picture. The picture on the right shows two separate pictures in the first two circles. The third picture combines them into one picture. These were combined with the help of computer software, but if you print the first two circles on cardstock or
The question I dread being asked the most every year has always been, “What did you get for Christmas?” As a child I was always embarrassed because my friends would rattle off a long list of things they got and I would try my best to make my single gift sound exciting too. Even as an adult I’ve never been privileged to receive extravagant Christmas gifts. Writing this post is embarrassing. Thankfully, I’m less likely to be asked what I got
The rushing and hubbub of Christmas is behind us and we are left with a major clean-up job. For most of the world, Christmas is over until next year. But on the Christian calendar, Christmas isn’t over for another twelve days culminating on January 6 representing the time the wise men brought their gifts to Jesus. I considered writing a twelve-day devotional book for reading over these twelve days, but I still haven’t written it. I also thought I would write
