Posted: December 14, 2024
It seems that once Remembrance Day has passed in Canada, the Christmas season is upon us in full swing…if you live in the U.S., it begins directly after Thanksgiving. In fact, once Halloween is over, the Christmas decorations quickly go up in a lot of our shops and stores. The amount of time that retailers
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Posted: November 15, 2024
“…Regrets, I’ve had a few….” The lyrics to Frank Sinatra’s epic song “My Way” ring so true for many of us. Who among us can actually say we have not done or said things we would take back in a heartbeat or that we took a turn in the road which ended up costing us
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Posted: October 24, 2024
We have all heard the expression: “She has the patience of Job!” Patience is most certainly a virtue and is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, once a person makes the decision to give their life to Christ. The apostle Paul states in Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
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Posted: September 27, 2024
It is amazing how quickly we learn to take things for granted, especially if the minutiae of our everyday life has been at status quo for a while. What seemed like a sometimes boring but stable life can suddenly be ripped away from us in a matter of seconds…leaving us feeling bereft and longing for
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Posted: September 17, 2024
I think most of us are very familiar with the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), one of the most iconic stories told by Jesus. When He was asked by an expert in the law: “‘Teacher,…what must I do to inherit eternal life?’”, Jesus responded: “‘What is written in the Law?…How do you read
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Posted: September 13, 2024
It seems that there is an overabundance of anger, angst and strife in and around our world, during these last days that we are living in. You don’t have to look very far to find trouble…it seems to constantly hover in the air and outside our own back door. In fact, it can be downright
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Posted: August 20, 2024
As some of you may know, my husband and I have been living through a long season of testing, trials and tribulations, which started in August 2018, approximately one year after our marriage. Paul woke up one hot summer day, in pain and unable to walk. His lower back pain was excruciating, and nothing he
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Posted: July 18, 2024
It has been said that life is a marathon, not a sprint…truer words were never spoken! My husband was a sprinter in high school, winning several awards for his strength and speed. In fact, he qualified for the Pan American Games in 1971, held in Colombia, South America. Most unfortunately, his coach regretted to inform
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Posted: May 24, 2024
Where does our strength come from? The answer depends upon our definition of strength. There are many types of strength; physical endurance is something that most of us try to attain and maintain throughout our lifetime. It only gets more difficult as we age, since most of us have to make a conscious effort to
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Posted: April 25, 2024
One of the yearly rituals we practise here in spring in southern Ontario is switching over our winter snow tires to summer tires. We had an uncommonly mild and temperate winter this year, but nevertheless, the task had to be completed. As I was sitting at a cafe table in our very modern and friendly
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