September 22, 2025

    It’s Our Choice I’ve written so many times about making choices because our choices are the bottom line. They make a difference for ourselves and for the world. Even Jesus made choices: “When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him.  A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said,…

August 9, 2025

Wow, I’m thrilled. Tom, too. Our new patio is fabulous. Our Christopher and his Century Landscape team are true artists. The whole process is wonderful. The team cleaned up every day before they left. Christopher asked many questions to ensure he knew and understood our vision. He has captured it totally and then some. This…

August 1, 2025

    Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay A Simple Guide for Behaviour My choice for daily Bible reading, is Eugene Peterson’s, “The Message.” Today’s reading is Matthew 7:1-12, a familiar portion of what we call “The Sermon on the Mount. In my Bible the words are underlined and starred telling me this passage has spoken to me…

July 28, 2025

“You Better Be Right!” Sometimes in my role as clergy, I find myself living and especially, being, the faith that others need. When grief and fear overwhelm us, we want to believe, though it’s hard. God seems far away. I remember declaring my belief in future life with God at the end of a Celebration…

July 11, 2025

Day Four Wow!!!! This is gorgeous. There’s still heaps to do. Tom and I picked out the kind of fence and height and colour. So many decisions but working with Chris (mind you he and his Century Landscape team are doing the work.) working with Chris on decision making is fun. He’s so respectful of…

July 10, 2025

Day Three:  Our Shareable Patio Is Taking Shape Yesterday Century Landscape laid the foundation for our patio. That finished by noon today. After lunch the “pavers” were delivered. The crew began the careful job of laying down those pavers. There will be a double border. Chris Oates (owner of Century Landscape and Services) is great….

July 8, 2025

For the last seven years, I’ve enjoyed my summer writing sanctuary. Filled with flowers it’s been a place of peace and inspiration. The difficulty has been is that this beautiful place does not share well. It’s actually crowded when there are more than two people to enjoy my sacred spot. For several years Tom and…

June 18, 2025

Linda and Pat from Grand River Books Great Support, and wonderful friends and fans Festival of Faith, Sudbury, Ontario This morning, I read this question in well-known writer, Richard Wagamese’s book, Embers. “What makes us aware of your presence, mysterious loving Creator?” Richard listed things of spectacular beauty and love that I can see, hear,…

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