VIEW FROM THE HEIGHTS                February 2026   Greetings! This month, our newsletter has a guest editor: none other than St. Valentine! I pass the pen to him…   Happy Love Day! I am deeply honoured that you have chosen the anniversary of my martyrdom to celebrate God’s gift of love.   You know, of course, that my “crime” was to stand up for marriage when Emperor Claudius II forbade his soldiers to wed. He thought it weakened their combat readiness. My protest was not because I’m a...

VIEW FROM THE HEIGHTS                January 2026   Nothing harmful will take place on the Lord's holy mountain.Just as water fills the sea, the land will be filledwith people who know and honor the Lord. Isaiah 11:9 CEV   Happy New Year! May 2026 be the year God’s dreams come true!   It’s easy to doubt this, isn’t it? Or even denigrate the ideal? But God has said that goodness WILL happen! And this coming year is the perfect reminder, the very prompt we need.  We will celebrate inventions...

VIEW FROM THE HEIGHTS December 2025 “Lucy stayed behind because she thought it would be worthwhile trying the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise it opened quite easily…” C.S. Lewis, “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” Chapter I Advent and Christmas Greetings! “Advent”, from the Latin, “ adventus ”, means the arrival of someone or something important. The name signifies the coming of God into the world through Jesus. But I’m...