Are You Contagious? Today my book of reflections for teens introduced me to “National Smile Day.” Smiles and laughter are the good medicine of life. A smile is contagious. One smile leads to another and spreads from person to person like wildfire. If I listen carefully, I can even hear a smile in someone’s voice….
I looked out my wonderful window today, to see this amazing demonstration of living together in peace and harmony. We’ve had the chipmunk before but never the brown pigeon. The pain, destruction, violence, hatred that is running rampant in the Middle East was already preying on my mind. If we could only learn from God’s…
I have finally stepped back into the joy of writing novel #3 in my Catalpa Creek series. Writing stories is fun. This third novel is based on love and acceptance just like “Fireweed” and “To Begin Again”. Too often our natural desire to love and accept someone feels easy at first – just the…
Thanksgiving is coming. In Canada, we connect our Thanksgiving celebrations to the big family feast. That’s good fun, but for me, the best part is being surrounded by people I love: family and friends. Over the years, loving people have brought God’s love to me in abundance. I am grateful. We human beings need that…
One Version of a TV Dinner today In the 1960’s an ordering mistake left the Swanson company with 270 tons of leftover Thanksgiving turkey. GT Thomas looked at all that turkey and created a frozen turkey dinner with three sides. He called it TV dinners. They sold out. With that creation the fast food industry…
Silence and God’s Presence One night at supper, we were discussing the phone addiction that has descended on many people today. My grandson, a young businessman said, “It’s hard to find workers today who won’t slip around every available corner, stop work and text on their phone.” We are addicted, not just to our phones…
Nature – Visions of God When we bought our house here in Peterborough, the deck outside the kitchen had a smaller, narrower space five steps down. Too narrow for a picnic table, it was really just a walkway into the back yard. A few years ago, we put our porch swing on this little deck….
Sometimes the Bible’s wisdom seems to be total fantasy. The story of Esau returning home hungry and trading his future for a bowl of soup has always seemed ridiculous to me. Who would be so foolish as to trade his inheritance, his future for a bowl of soup? And what relative or friend would be…