At 13 years of age, my parents and I visited an ophthalmologist. As I sat in the examining chair, my face firmly on the chin rest and pupils dilated, the doctor looked into my eyes, shining a bright light."She did inherit it," he said with coldness. "You need to be...
My mother taught me a long time agoThat worrying is of little use.It only clouds the mind, burdens the heart,And binds your soul in a noose. “If there’s something that you can do”, she’d say“Stop worrying and get up and do it.But if there’s nothing that can be done by...
I can remember, when I was a teenager, falling on my knees in our family kitchen and crying uncontrollably. My mother had just been taken away by the paramedics to the asylum again, after another terrifying outbreak of her schizophrenic disorder. As usual, she had not...
I had no intentions of taking the city bus when I left for work today. I would drive. Just like always. It wasn’t until my car refused to start that I remembered how I had sputtered and prayed my way home from work the night before. My gas gauge and my pocket book...
When Barbara Johnson discovered that her son Larry was homosexual, angry words were exchanged and her son left home, eventually changing his name, disowning the family, and disappearing into a gay lifestyle. Six years would pass before he made his way back home. She...
"Don't be weighed down with things that concern this world: What should we wear? What should we eat? What should we drink? … Look at the birds. They don't worry …" Matthew 6:25,26 Clear Word ParaphrasePhilio is my son-in-law's Blue-headed Pionus. They are great pals...
There was a look of utter distraught on my wife's face as she stared at what was left of our tent trail's right tire. Her gaze shifted to meet mine: "I think we will need to put on the spare."We had been traveling Highway 1, the Trans Canada Highway, through Manitoba,...