I wrote this poem on August 10, 1980 while Neil and I were on a camping trip to the Canadian East Coast with my mother and father. We had stopped in Ottawa to watch the ‘Changing of the Guard’ in front of the Parliament Buildings. It was one of the …
Thinking about a recent article I wrote around my early experiences with church and pursuits spiritual, put me in mind of this little story. It indicates to me that try as we might we can often, with the best of intentions, come up with our thumb firmly planted in our …
People have often noted a certain odd nature to my sense of humor. I can safely say I owe much of this oddness to Sundays of my youth, which included hours of Jesus and Walter Cronkite. Between the ages of about six and ten I would get up on a …
“Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ Isaiah 59:1 The prayers of others: how often have they helped me when I was not even aware someone was praying for me? How effective are my own prayers when I …
