He'll be 80 on his next birthday. I look at the eyes that have seen so much sadness in his life. His mother whose life was taken with cancer. His wife of many years who lost her life to MS. His daughter who lost her battle with cancer. There are grandchildren, but...
Proverbs 19:17 He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done.About eighteen months ago, I was in Macdonald's restaurant, having a coffee before Sunday School. At one of the tables, a woman was sitting alone, who looked...
Our last full day on Prince Edward Island sounded promising. We had made reservations in Alberton to take a boat tour to see the Blue Heron colony and to visit Sand Hill Island. We couldn't have asked for better weather, and we made sure to arrive 30 minutes early. We...
Goldilocks was the nickname we gave a runaway teen we found in the woods of a neighborhood park. We soon found out that she was wanted by the police, but not wanted at home.Where did she hope to go? What did she want to do? Who could we get to help her?Where did she...
I was looking for a decent sized empty bottle to fill with water in preparation for a two hour drive. Surveying the situation I came across a used plastic Coke bottle that the family had consumed the previous evening.Because I am fussy about fresh tasting water I...
What is Love? That four letter word that we often think we know a lot about, yet just when we believe it to be in our grasp, it alludes us, then remains dormant for a time before it reappears, fresh as ever in our mind.I am learning that it is always there, just...
If you have ever visited a big city for the first time, you probably know what it's like to find yourself so lost that it seems like you're driving in a maze! And you can probably relate to my family and I when we arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick. Oh, we had a...