By The Fireside: The Unwelcomed Welcomer

By The Fireside

Who hasn’t sat around a campfire and watched how firelight changes the faces that surround the glowing embers? There is something so mysterious and lovely about the dancing flames and the charcoaled smoke as it rises into the evening sky. The flames - the light - transform ordinary logs of wood into a picturesque bonfire. As indigo ash whispers through the night air, we breathe in a new aroma, resigning ourselves to the blaze.

When we think about community, we often reflect upon the wonderful times we've shared by a fireside...a warm hearth in a friend's home, Christmas morning with precious family, or sweet sharing and song around a bonfire. Perhaps this vision most reminds us of our great cloud of witnesses; the inspiration behind this page. As we share our stories & photographs here, our hope is that we may renew, refresh, and rekindle our friendships by this fireside...

Kenny & Jenn Sinclair

"...if my fire is not large, it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame." — A. W. Tozer, foreword to The Pursuit of God

Saturday, October 16, 2010

The Unwelcomed Welcomer

Fievel, the praying mantis that has lived in our door-frame for about 5 weeks, was just devoured and replaced by a female one - 10 times his size!! It hissed at me when I tried to use the front door yesterday...after which I shrieked and decided to enter by way of the garage. I miss you, kind little Fievel :-(

I finally worked up the courage to take a picture of her...it doesn't really do her justice...she's about 7-8 inches long!! I've decided to name her Wilhemina... of course.