Isaac Day
Jul 15Today is the day that our second child was scheduled to be born. We do not wish to live in the past, but today we pause for a moment to remember. Our dear second child. We had planned to meet you around this time of year. We thought from how well you smiled for the ultrasound cameras and showed your strong, beating heart that you understood this plan. But, I guess that womb-side connectivity was...
Phony Calls
May 17I had another telemarketer call tonight, just as we were getting Aidan ready for bed.. I don’t mind telemarketers, per se, though sometimes their timing can be way off. (I will, however, make an exception for auto-dialed calls that don’t have someone waiting to speak to me when I pick up the phone. Those frustrate me.) Anyway I am a sucker and usually pick up the phone even when I...
Trusting God
Feb 08A few weeks back, our church did a series on trusting God, which finished with a message on trusting God even when you don’t understand what’s going on. Little did I know that within a few weeks, we’d have two opportunities to experience real life object lessons on this subject. It started last Thursday at work, with a situation that still has me scratching my head. I...
The Traveling Salesman Problem
Jan 14You may have seen a thread on Facebook about this, however, I feel compelled to detail the whole situation in more than the few hundred characters I can work with there. So it all started a few days back. Someone randomly phoned our house during the day. The call display lit up with the dreaded “Unknown Caller” but Jen broke her usual convention and answered anyway, thinking it may...
Taking the Bullying by the Horns
Dec 22[adjusts soapbox] I was reading a great piece in The National Post the other day on the topic of bullying and the legislation being proposed in this great province of ours, and it really got me thinking. It brought up memories of my own high school experiences, which certainly weren’t everyone’s idea of what high school should be. For the anxious among you, I’ll get to the...
Getting Emotional
Nov 29This past Sunday at Lifecentre, we kicked off our Christmas sermon series, Journey of the Heart. Throughout this series, we will be looking at how we can respond to the gift of Jesus this Christmas, with a bit of a Canadian twist, eh? Because it’s a Journey of the Heart, we’ll be looking at the responses of three different types of heats, Busy, Intellectual and Emotional. Why do I...