October Kindles a Strange yet Wonderful Feeling
Thanksgiving Monday. Turkey dinner is over. The trailer has been put to bed for another season (I miss it already!) and the leaves with their spectacular colour have fallen victim to early morning frost and lay in abundance on the ground. Yet, despite the cold, the sun continues to shine in the face of threatening snow. For me, October kindles a strange yet wonderful feeling… bitter sweet, almost…strange how there’s so much beauty in the death of a season. We have been reminded once again...
Read MoreThe Clock and The Calendar are Brutal and Relentless
…they stop for no one. I heard that statement earlier this summer as an introduction to a sermon and I noted it, thinking I could use it some time. Well, today is my birthday! What better time! …but let me digress for just a moment… ***** The first day of October brought the promise of a cold, wet fall with nothing but the dread of a long and frigid winter ahead. The wind created a ripple of grass-waves through the long, unkempt hills of the bunkers and rattled the thin windows...
Read MoreStepping Out of the Box
Sitting in a kiosk in a mall in Dieppe, NB—having a chai latté with soya and cinnamon—I read the following from a magazine: “Making the right choice often means choosing the thing that both excites and scares you!” For me, planning a 17-day trip to the Maritimes for a book tour/speaking ministry certainly qualifies as exciting and scary! How so? Because it involved driving a distance I had never driven before (4238 kms in total); crossing the border with boxes of books and material...
Read MoreTalking the Talk and Walking the Walk
I read recently that experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. And I’m reminded of my brother. The other day I had an unusually long conversation with my older brother, Doug. I learned something about him that I never knew before. Doug has been a volunteer for over a year in the cancer ward at the hospital in Windsor. In itself, this is no great feat…there are many who volunteer for countless, mundane tasks in hospitals. But then, my brother is a...
Read MoreThe Gates of Heaven
“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” John Lubbock Sparrow Lake, Gravenhurst, Ontario August...
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