Christmas time passed with all its business. The New Year celebrations faded into a shadow. Time to get back into harness as the saying goes. After being away for a few weeks from the Housing Support Centre, called “The Haven,” where I work part time, I noticed on...
"Today when you hear his voice, don't harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled." (Hebrews 3:15b NLT) "What's that?" I asked my friend as we strolled through the market in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, near the Mexican border. She had just bought a...
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." (Psalm 51:10 KJV)"The people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat." (Joshua 6:20b KJV)After living in 34 different rental accommodations, my husband and I finally managed to...
Given the current situation with abnormal COVID-19 times and the inability to do "normal" activities, I have been thinking about people whom I have met and the impressions that they have made on me.Over the years, I have been privileged to meet — and sometimes to work...
One hot summer day, I watched our Blue Healer, Rocky, stroll across the field and walk into the neighbor’s pond. He looked rather handsome with the sun behind him as he emerged from the refreshing water. As is typical of wet dogs, he shook himself, starting at his...
As I began to tell last Friday, my dad was always my hero. I was so proud to call him my dad, and with each of his childhood stories, I admired him more and more...He was definitely a prankster. In fact, he took the goal of being a prankster to a new level; and even...
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV Last night I was beat. All I could do was...