Driving in today was crazy – the new snow from yesterday which was light and fluffy was being blown around by the winds in the frigid temperatures, and there were times where all of sudden I was driving with very little visibility, unsure of where I was going– I have lots of experience on roads…
I should be used to it by now but it amazes me each time this happens – when my life and the scripture readings coincide. I am Simon this week. My mother-in-law is sick, she is dying. She is lying in a hospital bed in Smith Falls with Pneumonia, Pulmonary Fibrosis, and dementia and in…
All of us here know that God calls – we hear it over and over in scripture – we listened to two such stories last week – when God called Samuel – and when God called Phillip and Nathaniel – we heard it today when God called Peter and Andrew and of course – God’s…
A good many of us here this morning are parents … some are now grandparents, and a few may even be great grandparents. Many of us, then, have experienced some of the delightful gifts that children can bring into our lives – their openness, their honesty, their way of seeing things through eyes not yet…
When is the last time that you sat in the early morning and watched the sun come up? It really is remarkable – it begins in darkness and slowly all around the sky begins to lighten and the darkness begins to fade. And sometimes if you look towards the east, you notice that the light…