A number of years ago, there was a woman in Kansas City who walked into a Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop. While she was waiting in line, she turned around to find actor Paul Newman standing behind her. He was in town filming the movie Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, and he didn’t...
It's easy to feel connected and assured of God's handiwork in our lives when things are going great; however, what happens when life throws a curve ball and that connection seems to dissipate? In my own life, trials and obstacles make knowing God that much harder,...
We had enjoyed an entire afternoon in the full sun while trekking through hills, rocks and at times very slippery terrain in the Niagara gorge, and once we were back up in civilization, we were completely exhausted. The climb up is always the most tenuous, and once...
Ezekiel 37: 4-5;6b "(The Lord said to Ezekiel) Prophesy to these bones and say to them, Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life....Then you will know that I am...
Psalm 119:11- 13 "I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Praise to you, O Lord; teach me your decrees. With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth." NIVAs I lay awake savouring the quiet cloak of darkness, listening to...
In 1989, we began building our dream home on our six-acre property. At the lock-up stage of construction, unusually heavy rains caused a massive landslide below our house that left it standing a few feet from the edge of a sheer clay drop of about 300 feet to the...
Names of places in Quebec, the French province in Canada, are very descriptive. Or so we would learn, as we trudged to the top of Mont Erable (Mount Maple) in Le Parc National des Hautes Gorges de la Rivière Malbaie - Literally translated, "The National Park of the...