Index to this series of features.
| Ashes | A word picture about God's intentions for us stimulated by the experience of having ashes blow in one's face. |
| Buds | A word picture about life and death based on observing pussywillow stems in a vase and on the bush. |
| Cisterns | Unlike a cistern which can run dry, God made us to draw on the deep well of His eternal abundance. |
| Confession | A word picture about the relationship between the new life God gives us once for all and confession which we need to do regularly. |
| Dandelions | A word picture about how sin, like dandelions, can take over unless we live in the power of the Spirit. |
| Debt | It's a word picture about the inevitable day when the accounts of our moral debts are called in. |
| Dust | A word picture about God's light shining into our lives based the interplay of light and dust in a grist mill. |
| Hit and Miss | A word picture about the Christian life based on the old "hit and miss engines" of pioneer days. |
| Hydrangea | A word picture about how our character, like hydrangea, has the tendency to be deeply affected by our environment. |
| Love Letter | A word picture about how we should approach the Bible based on way we might approach a letter. |
| An Oil Lamp | A word picture about spiritual illumination based on reflections upon finding an old oil lamp. |
| On A Tether | A word picture about freedom based on observations of a variety of animals on tethers and leashes. |
| Outside Dog | A word picture about the kind of gods people choose based on what we might call "an outside dog." |
| Pandemic | A word picture about parallels between the swine flu pandemic in the physical world and the sin pandemic in the spiritual realm. |
| Ready for the Big Move | A word picture about our preparation for eternity based on what we do when we change homes. |
| Receiving Gifts | A word picture about the way God's best gifts come to us based on one of Ron's childhood experiences. |
| Rest | A word picture about the Christian's rest based on the rest of a usually frenetic toddler. |
| Trees | A word picture about spiritual growth based on observations about the way trees grow. |
| A Used Napkin | A word picture about proof of the resurrection based on Jesus' sharing a meal with His disciples. |
| Waiting | A word picture about the difference between anticipating good news and bad. |
| Work | A word picture about our part in our salvation based on some thoughts about different kinds of work. |