Braveheart. 300. Gladiator. Blood, guts, risk, and women — the almost perfect combination! The only thing really missing is a good stiff drink — a shot of whiskey that tastes like you’ve just put your head in a barrel of smoke, or been in a gunfight that leaves you and everyone else bleeding-out on the […]
A lesson in giving from lottery winners
On Saturday, July 16th, 2011, Violet Large from Truro, NS died after a long battle with ovarian cancer. Violet Large, along with her husband Allen, were best remembered for winning a huge $11 million jackpot but decided to give their winnings away to the people that needed it the most. When people read about this […]
9 tips for being more patient
Patience is known as a virtue for a reason. According to the dictionary it is, “The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.”It isn’t easy to be patient and anyone who’s ever had to exercise patience knows that very well. Patience might be even more difficult to practice […]
Finding meaning in my bi-polar life
Several years ago I began an article about finding meaning in a life with bipolar disorder with the following words, “Mental illness is not all bad.” I truly regret having written those words today. Although it was not my intention, using those words made it look like I was making light of disorders that I […]
The complex art of apologizing properly
Much has been made in recent times about recognizing disenfranchised groups, and apologizing for the traditions and processes that led to their condition. However, less has been written about how such apologies and recognition can be achieved. I thought it would be useful to look at the anatomy of an apology — beginning with the […]
Facing the holiday music: Tips for grieving hearts
A man with leprosy: Mark 1:40-45
Fourth in a series This seems to be a story about healing, about God’s graciousness in healing the illnesses that come because we have turned God’s good creation into a sinful, fallen world. If so, it leads us to praise God. But, at another level, it is a story about obedience. We can understand the […]
Table for two – surviving Christmas in the empty nest
In my collection of cassette tapes, which my children say are left over from the Ark, is one I made during my bachelor days. It was back in 1970. The winter was cold and wet. An ice storm had split an old tree in two just down the street. I was living alone in a […]
An ‘old-fashioned’ Christmas?
Gilded ribbons, tapered candles and decorated wreaths around the hearth. A return to a more traditional Christmas seems to be where our recession-weary minds are wandering. It’s time to remember and relive the good old days. This is the approach the stores are taking as they stock their shelves: traditional colours, Victorian scenes, evergreen wreaths, […]
A Number of Points: Mark 1:21-35
Third in a series There are a number of interesting points in this passage of Scripture. First, Jesus taught as one with authority. We do not do that. We relate what God has told us in Scripture. Jesus was God and could speak directly as God. Many of us would like to speak divinely, to […]
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