This is the view from the patio out back of our place. The mulberry tree has lost its leaves at present, so that’s it looks all yellow. Most mornings when I get out of bed I make my breakfast and go and sit outside. I’ve always done this. Even if it’s raining, so long as it’s not cold and windy. At the very least, I need a window by which to sit and stare outside. There’s just something about being…
This is a wonderful little movie based on true events concerning the history of Scotland and England. So because this is based on historical events, this post is not a spoiler alert and I would thoroughly recommend watching the movie. It is available on Netflix and Youtube. Basically, in the 1200’s Scotland had a large and heavy stone they used in or as a coronation chair for Scotland’s monarchs. There are legends surrounding the origin of the stone but whatever it’s origin, it…
This post has been re-titled and transferred to my book, Food for the Table: Christ our Real Food. The book will be released mid to late January 2023, and you will find the links to purchase on ‘My Books’ page. Food for the Table: Christ our Real Food is a collection of some of the best posts from Drawing From the Well, spanning from 2014 to end 2022. The idea behind it is to provide the reader with some…
Well, I went to see the movie “Everest” last week and in 3D. Wow. I really recommend the 3D version on the big screen. It’s the true story of a team of hikers on their trek to the summit of Mount Everest. Pretty soon into the film, I began to see and hear the Lord in it and this progressed throughout the film. For us believers, Christ is our summit. Like the summit of Mount Everest to these hikers, Christ is our ultimate,…
I’ve watched all the episodes of the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit series, a few times over and conclude there are many obvious shadows and types of Christ and the Church seen in each episode, too many to write about! More than likely, many others have written about these and so I thought I would share just some of what I saw in the episode titled Return of the King. In this episode, we see a ‘steward’, Denethor II, who…
For a long time, I had begun to see my Lord Jesus in images of water – as a rushing river, speeding over all the river stones, teaming with life, sometimes carrying me along in the roaring flow – deep, cool, green and frothing with clear whitewash. I had also begun to see Him as a deep unfathomable ocean – vast, majestic, all-powerful and beyond me altogether. Likewise, I had seen the Lord as the cool springs, trickling along in…
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. I am always amazed when something I have read so many times in the bible, and revelations I have read from other authors, finally become life to me. This morning Jesus revealed Himself to me afresh as the ‘Light of the World’. I woke to my usual onslaught of thoughts that do not originate with me, but rather by their very nature, clearly come…
“Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it” (Mark 10:15). Even though I’m 47 years of age, I love this plate and I use it almost daily. I bought it myself a while back because being plastic, it doesn’t let my toast go cold! I bought it from the children’s products in the supermarket aisle……… yes, there is definitely a child in me who is alive and…
Continuing from The Worthiness of God Part 1, today I want to explore the shadows and types of Christ in the life of King Solomon (1 Kings: Chapters 1-10) and before he disobeyed God. God promised King David his descendants would be on the throne forever. It is Christ who reigns forever on the throne. As was King Solomon, Christ was in the line of King David, the Tribe of Judah. Solomon was given wisdom from God and is still known…
I saw this tree the other day – this beautiful Australian Redgum. It has three trunks in the one. What an incredible and simple explanation of the community of the Godhead. One but yet three. Three distinctly different but of the same life, the same origin, the same purpose. Never before have I seen so clearly in nature, the revealing of this Holy Community, that is our God. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. No morphing of one into the other, no…