Safe Amidst Danger

Photo ©2011 and Commentary ©2026 by Chuck Davis Monday, April 27, 2026 Over the past year, I have shared several images of the Granite Mountain Fire Lookout. It sits upon a solid foundation of granite boulders. Though buffeted by fierce winds and wild storms, once...

What to Bring

Photo and Commentary ©2026 by Shelley Schurch Sabbath and Sunday, April 25 and 26, 2026 One of my first teen-age non-babysitting jobs was as a vacation fill-in clerk-typist in the State Fire Marshall’s office in my hometown of Juneau, Alaska. The next four summers I...

Evergreen

Photo and Commentary ©2026 by Maylan Schurch Friday, April 24, 2026 What’s pictured in the photo above probably has no meaning to you. In fact, the color of the little item reclining on a page of my pocket notebook doesn’t really come through clearly. It looks black,...

Fluoresce

Photo and Commentary ©2026 by Russell Jurgensen Thursday, April 23, 2026 In this image taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, these otherwise ordinary looking rocks fluoresce when UV light shines on them. Some of the rock types include Fluorite Calcite and...

His Love Endures Forever

Photo and Commentary ©2026 by Darren Milam Wednesday, April 22, 2026 It’s sights like this, a blooming crabapple tree, that remind me of creation. In Genesis 8, we read about a kind of “new creation” unfolding. The floodwaters have finally receded after covering the...