Life

    Some years ago, I was cutting an avocado, and my cousin commented on the way I was cutting it. It was different from the way she cuts avocados. She wasn’t judging my way of cutting it; she was just interested that I cut it differently from her. We do things differently; we think […]

If I asked you, “What is the most important thing to me?” what would you say? Not, “who is the most important thing to me?” – that would be God, then my family (husband, kids, grandkids) – but what? What possession do I have, that if I could only own one thing, would be that

Recently, I came across the following that I had written years ago, duing a very difficult time. *     *    * On Thursday, I was driving home from my counselling appointment, and I stopped by a dollar store to get something. It was in the stationery section. I noticed various journals (I was looking for something

Recently one of our sons invited family members to join him in reading the 27 shortest books of the Bible in 27 days – one book a day. And what I discovered (only on day 2 as of this writing) is that reading through a book in one sitting gives you a different perspective than

There is something about a new year. On one hand, nothing much changes – we wake up on January 1st  and do the same things we’ve been doing. On the other hand, there is something about a new year where one hopes for a fresh start, which is why many people make “New Year’s resolutions.” One

A couple of weeks after the October 7th massacre of Israelis, our son, Josh, wrote an article about how Jewish people often wonder if their friends would hide them if the need arose (think Holocaust). Upon reading the article, many of our non-Jewish friends assured us that they would, indeed hide us. And most likely,

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

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

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