Let God’s Joy Fill Your Heart. During the third week of Advent we light the candle of Joy. How do we experience Joy in the midst of our tears, in the midst of the chaos of this world? Joy is God’s gift offered daily, Like any gift, it is not received when we leave it…
What I Do Is Important to God Yesterday I read a newspaper interview with Louise Penny, the well-known author of the Inspector Gamache Mystery Series. I hadn’t written my “Thought for the Day” before leaving home and I wondered if it mattered anyway. After all, I am only a self-published author, not a Louise Penny….
October 11, 2015 Happy Thanksgiving! Have a blessed day. At 8 a.m. this morning, we delivered twenty copies of Fireweed to Rev. David Zub. His study group will be reading and studying it this fall. Hopefully, either I or UCRD, will receive many more large orders like David’s. The drive from Sault Ste Marie to…
United Church Gifts With Vision Catalogue A gift of $50 in your loved one’s name will help build a 7 room school in Duplan, Haiti I Can Make a Difference!!! My son Dave, his wife, Joanne and granddaughter, Jenna, are not coming home for Christmas….
Practicing Peace Requires Patience Two weeks ago, a young man followed me home in order to yell at me. His message: Driving under the speed limit on a city street in a residential neighborhood had inconvenienced him. I was not considerate of other people. I don’t know how long he followed me driving under the…
See, smile, feel God’s peace with you today. Peace Be With You! This morning, I am mourning the deferral of a very special interview I had scheduled with Raheel Raza as part of my research for my next book, One More Step even though there is no deadline for its completion. As I write this, my…
O God, help me rest in your peace today. During this advent week of peace, let’s begin each day seeking God’s peace for our individual lives. To be a channel of God’s peace for others, we need to know at least a little of God’s peace for ourselves. Each day, we wake with our minds…
I am clay. I will choose the God of Hope as my potter.(Isaiah 64:8) The Bible uses the metaphor of God as the potter with us as the clay. The metaphor breaks down when we consider that the clay has no choice in the potter’s skillful hands. As human clay we have choices. We can…