I have this tradition. Every year, I use a different devotional for my morning quiet time. In 2016, I read Every Day in His Presence by Dr. Charles Stanley, senior pastor of First Baptist Church Atlanta and one of my favorite preacher/authors. After spending a year with this beautiful volume, I’ll give a brief outline…
The last port we visited on the Alaska cruise was Victoria, British Columbia. Canada. For quite a while, it was a place that had been on my bucket. Oh, how good it felt to cross that one off, even if we only were in port a few hours to do it! The ms Westerdam came…
I smiled. Lighthouses are one of my favorites. Seeing a small one sit on the edge of a tiny island as the ms Westerdam glided into Sitka Wednesday morning brought my attention to the number of little land masses rising just above the water. It seemed like they were everywhere you looked. Cabins and houses…
John Muir lived from 1838-1914. As a Naturalist, he made four trips to Alaska where he was the first Euro-American to explore Glacier Bay and document what he found there. On those trips, he had a young missionary by the name of Samuel Hall Young as a companion. Young wrote the book Alaska Days with…
Juneau, Alaska was our first port of call and the northernmost point we would travel to on the In Touch Cruise. The Westerdam docked at one o’clock in the afternoon, giving me plenty of time to enjoy the morning activities, have lunch and head to the gangway. We stayed in Juneau until 10 PM, so…
According to today’s title, you may have thought it meant a story about a whale or maybe the whale’s physical tale – either way, you’re correct! Orca whales were seen off the starboard side of the ship all morning and into the afternoon as we sailed toward Alaska. If you would have told me that…
The PA system fizzed on the aircraft, alerting flyers that the pilot was about to speak. “Ladies and gentlemen, we are currently flying over Washington and if you look out the windows on the left side of the aircraft, you can view Mount Saint Helens…” “Ooos,” and “Ahhhs,” followed, but that wasn’t the only…
