Did you ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong--and sometimes the wrong lasts more than a few days?It all started when we were driving home from our holidays on Manitoulin Island. Approximately twenty kilometers from where we stayed, I noticed...
I squirmed in my seat when a speaker said, “When you walk through any cemetery, you see three things on each tombstone: the birth date, a dash and the date of death. Out of the three, the most meaningful is the dash, for it represents your life.” After a pause, he...
"Congratulations, a baby boy!" The words were taken in by a beaming and proud grandma. On February 14, 2010, Carter Nicholas was born, our fourth grandchild. What an exciting time! He is such a sweet, newborn baby boy, and I am sure that all grandmothers and...
We had never seen so many people in one place at one time. The Eiffel Tower truly is "the" attraction In Paris"! Hardly anyone was moving, and it was difficult to navigate through the crowd towards the foot of the tower. Once we were about half-way there however, we...
When I left home to attend college overseas, all I could think about was how exciting it was to go to a new country. I was completely oblivious to the fact that my mother's world would change dramatically. Being the youngest of two, my departure left my mother with...
Exodus 14:12 "Didn't we say to you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!" (NIV)When I first became a Christian, I found it tough to try to live up to Christ’s...
Exodus 14:12 "Didn't we say to you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!" (NIV)When I first became a Christian, I found it tough to try to live up to Christ’s...