The Most Sung Songs at Church (And my personal favourite)
Bono said that “music can change the world because it can change people.” I love that. Music has an unsuspecting power ready to spring up […]
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Even Lions fans have hope.
Life in 2013 has been quiet thus far. I made two batches of potatoes for dinner tonight {one with chives, the other with cheese} and […]
The Author and the Plan
I sit and look in amazement as Helen knits away…the sock in her lap has several rows, each row one particular colour. Yet Helen has but one ball of wool. How can it be?
Melita’s Peppernuts
Melita Loewen Bartel was born, in 1929, in Macklin, Saskatchewan, to “Reformationist” parents. Her parents left South Russian, in 1923, in search of religious freedom. […]
Walking into the New Year
This Christmas, the Spouse and I very nearly swapped copies of the same book. Robert MacFarlane has recently published the third book in what he calls a “loose trilogy about landscape and the human heart,” and it seemed like a logical and lovely addition to our library.
How to Make a New Year’s Resolution that Sticks
It was a high school party on December 31st. At 11:55 p.m. a friend I played hockey with said his resolution was to quit smoking. […]
God’s plan will not be foiled!
In certain high church traditions, today is marked as the “feast of holy innocents”, that is, the day that commemorates the slaughter of young children […]
Was Jesus White? Are You Sure?
I decided against posting something about the end of the world. It really hasn’t been on my radar. (For the reason read Mark 13: 32) […]
Merry Christmas from the Messy Table
Christmas Eve.
There are, of course, still presents to be wrapped. And lists to be checked. Likely cupboards to be checked, too, because I do follow in my mother’s footsteps and file things away in odd places to be forgotten and then remembered never quite too late.
Snow and Small Things
It is snowing…not the wild snow with wind that is associated with the fearful “Alberta Clipper”, but a gentle snow that lowers the blood pressure […]
Barbara’s Happy Cake
What a team! Barbara and Bill Ralph at Wychwood Presbyterian Church. For years, they made the annual Christmas tea and bazaar their focus. Bill crafted […]
The end is near?
As I sit to offer you a word of encouragement today, I don’t know where to begin. So much has happened and converged around this […]
The Problem With Christmas (and the promise)
“We should get out of Christmas.” That’s what a very devout friend of mine recently said. She meant that we should just stop the whole […]
Are we ready for Christmas?
Today day was simple and quiet. I am still in recovery from a nasty virus but I figure by the weekend I’ll be 100%. I’ve […]
Not Cooking and I’m in Trouble
What to cook? What to cook! I need some inspiration.
Easy Christmas Peas
Phyllis Duncan Murton, now 94, has crisp memories of summer visits to her Aunt Maud, in Oxford, Nova Scotia. Maud Lockhart lived in a 200-year-old house […]
An Expectant Kick
There’s a scene near the end when Juno finally tells Bleeker that she loves him – she says that every time she sees him, her baby starts to kick a lot. She thinks that it’s because her own heart starts to thump.
Which made me think about Elizabeth.
The Not So Merry Christmas
Wonderful! That’s what my expectation of the upcoming Christmas was to be…for the first time in four years nearly all the family would be together.
His peace he leaves with us.
I remember sitting around campfires with my Dad when I was younger. Together we would sing in the darkness and the light from the […]
Transparency in Parenting
Parenting can be a lonely business until you realize that others are in the boat with you.