Before Bluey

DM 7th September 2024

Bluey now has her own set of stamps, coins, figurines, and all manner of collectables. I don’t remember Lassie being so feted, and only now is that famous sled-dog, Togo, who braved dangerous icefields to enable a medical rescue, starting to be recognized. But long before them all was a man called Caleb, whose Hebrew name means dog. No doubt around the crib his father was thinking of those qualities of faithfulness and loyalty.

If that man could have coins and stamps and figurines to celebrate his life and remember his feats and exploits, the following would be among them: A figurine of him with Joshua remonstrating with the other ten men who were enlisted to spy out the Promised Land, that it was indeed possible to march forward, because God would help them. Perhaps we would see Caleb pointing to heaven to show where he knew the power lay.

We would have a series of stamps depicting him stepping forward in battle against three giants, the sons of Anak. And another showing the fair city he won, Hebron, which would later be nominated as a city of refuge. And another marking the occasion of the birth of his daughter, Aksah – meaning anklet, and denoting strength and stability – to whom he would grant an inheritance. And to top it off, we would have a gold commemorative coin of him at eighty-five, bearing this testimony: “I have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly”. And all of them would be worth collecting.

Recent Posts

Perfect freedom

Perfect freedom DM 30th August 2025 There’s an interesting verse in the final Book of the Bible on the topic of heaven. In speaking about

Read More »

Faint praise

Faint praise DM 23rd August 2025 I knew that the smallest bone in the human body was located in the ear. In high-school biology, we

Read More »

Shelter

Shelter DM 2nd August 2025 You can find the story on youtube and meet the central characters – Theodore Malgorne the lighthouse-keeper and Jean Guichard

Read More »

Botany 101

Botany 101 DM 26th July 2025 I walked past the sandstone memorial today to mark the life of Joseph Banks, the first European botanist to

Read More »
The bargain

The bargain

The bargain DM 5th July 2025 There’s a smile that never fails to amuse me. It regularly appears on Antiques Roadshow every time someone, who

Read More »

Oranges and lemons

Oranges and lemons DM 28th June 2025 Whoever composed the rhyme, “Oranges and lemons, the bells of St Clements” was a cheat! Lemons and Clements

Read More »