For all practical purposes, it was an ordinary day in the life of a Grade 7 teacher. My classroom was full of 30 French Immersion students, all eagerly working to do their best. Then I heard the page: "Mr. Chaffart, you have a phone call in the office." Puzzled,...
My father passed away suddenly when I was fifteen, and well I remember the stunned disbelief of family and friends at the loss of a vibrant, gifted husband and dad. In my memory, the funeral was surreal and muted; the still, pale figure in the coffin could not be the...
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Romans 7:19Several years ago, the London Transit Authority had a problem.Customers were complaining their bus wasn't stopping to pick them up. When they were questioned, the...
"Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7 NKJV)Many of the recent devotional publications through the Nugget have been focussing on the central themes of troubled times, trials, dealing with problems, going through life's valleys, etc. All...
The day of my needle biopsy was here, and I wasn't looking forward to it.A few weeks earlier, God had given me a specific message: I was to go through troubled times, but I wasn't to worry, because He would carry me through every step of the way, and in the end, I...
1 Corinthians 6:19b-20a - You are not your own ... for you were bought at a price. (NKJV)Sitting in a booth in a Shari's Restaurant the other day with a friend, I looked outside as someone's car alarm was blaring incessantly. I wondered what was taking the guy in the...
Romans 8:32 "He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" NIVA huge Pine tree, shaped like a sling shot, stood in our front yard. Its shape was both a curiosity and a marvel. One...