Month: June 2017

God makes all things new

Over the years I am finding that the key to a haps life is gratitude for what one has before them. I am on an Island off the coast of Maine, caring for a small church and resting for a while before a big move to a new and happy...

The Pilgrimage within the Pilgrimage

A ten minute walk from the Saint Columba Hotel, where our little pilgrimage is staying next to the benedictine Abbey, is the Augustinian Nunnery (Convent) which are now in ruins after 1400 years.  This image of a square room with low, white benches on either side, is the remnants of...

The dog and the author

This is an oil painting of a Skye Terrier named Bobby.  He lived as the companion of a police officer named John Grey whose beat was the Grassmarket between Greyfriars Church and Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1858, Bobby’s master, John Grey, died of tuberculosis and for fourteen years...