I was walking at my favourite walking place the other day and I thought: “Who am I? Who am I to be so blessed to be able to walk here and enjoy the beauty of God’s creation?” I was filled with such gratitude! Then I recalled that when I was a child I had that […]
The world in its present state has good and evil, darkness and light, ugliness and beauty. Sometimes the beauty is before us in all its splendor – a gorgeous flower, a beautiful sunset, a loving act. Other times we need to make a concerted effort to look for it when darkness or evil is before
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A story that I love is found in Genesis 18:1-8. I’ve copied and pasted it here for your reading pleasure (the “him” and “he” referred to in the first sentence is Abraham): And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the
In “The Bee Tree” young Mary Ellen is tired of reading and wants to be running and playing outdoors. Her grandfather wisely takes her outisde on an exciting bee chase to find honey. The author-illlustrator describes and shows the frolicking adventure as Grandfather and Mary Ellen invite various neighbours whom they meet on the way
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A Question of Loyalty, by Barbara Greenwood, takes place in 1837, during the time of the Upper Canada Rebellion, led by William Lyon Mackenzie. Deborah is a teenager who finds a wounded young “rebel” (Dan) hiding in her family’s barn. Her family is on the other side of the conflict, and yet as she (and
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When one wants an accurate account, one needs accurate sources, such as eyewitnesses, or reading from someone’s own journal (as long as it matches eyewitness accoutns.) In her book “Hold the Line,” Tamara Lich, who through no design of her own became the face and voice of the Canadian Freedom Convoy, tells how she got
I have a strong belief in God. And you don’t. My belief informs how I live – I seek to live according to God’s directives in the Bible. I do not expect you to live that way – you don’t have my belief in God, so why would you? That doesn’t prevent me from loving
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I have homeschooled all ten of our children. The youngest has recently graduated from our homeschool and doesn’t yet know what he is going to pursue. A mentor of his was encouraging him to just apply for university, but I told him that as this mentor hasn’t been homeschooled, he doesn’t know that there
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Years ago children used their imaginations to make a town called “Roxaboxin” – made up of stones, old wooden boxes, and deserted glass on a sandy, rocky hill in their neighbourhood. When these children grew up, one of their children, Alice McLerran, wrote a delightful children’s book about it that is bound to inspire children
In the last few months, on two occasions, I have been called “a privileged white woman” by two strangers who knew nothing about me. One was by someone online; the other was in a face-to-face encounter, where the name caller was also a white woman (granted, she called me “a privileged old white woman,” while
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