Image by Gregory Sabin from Pixabay Winter’s Gift for 2026 It’s winter. It’s cold. BRRRRR. For me, January provides a time to enjoy the gift of reflection. The rush and excitement of Christmas have settled. In our part of the world nature’s growth pauses. The earth takes time out for rest. A beautiful white blanket covers everything…
Poster Painted by Mary Englebreit (available for sale on line) Richard Wagamese, in his book of reflections Embers, offers this piece of wisdom for living: “You have to learn to make your own moccasins… You make them from the hide of your experience, all the places you have walked. You sew them with the thread…
I don’t normally write poetry. When I picked up my December 2025 file, I found this poem that I had written just before Christmas. Tonight it feels important to share it with you even though we have stepped into 2026. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay We celebrate Christmas because… Jesus was born in the darkness…
Image by Kari Shea from Pixabay For the last year, every day I read an excerpt from “Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations” by Richard Wagamese. Richard’s words are an endless source of inspiration for my life. I wish I had met him during his lifetime. At the age of twenty, I would not have turned to an indigenous writer…
Our Christmas celebrations are over, and yet…I don’t want to let it go completely. I want Christmas to be a vehicle of change for our world. When I went to post a blog tonight, I found this poem that I wrote the week before Christmas. I don’t write poetry. So I don’t usually post poems….
December is here. Many of us in Canada are busy preparing for Christmas. Statisticians tell us that the majority of people in Canada are no longer Christian. Almost every world religion is represented in our population. Many claim no belief in God at all, yet still the stores gear up for Christmas. Have you ever…
A common question people ask when they learn that I’m a writer is, “What do you write?” Their faces often show surprise when I answer, “Novels, short stories, children’s books, worship resources, blogs, and a newspaper column.” I usually smile and add, “My pen likes variety.” When I look out at God’s spectacular world,…
ipictures by pixabay.com Halloween: A Time to Play Halloween is a night to be different. In a world where it often feels safer to just blend in, Halloween traditions offer freedom — the freedom to dress up and be someone else, at least for a little while. Since becoming an “adult,” candy has lost much…