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The Bigger Picture
When I was a young girl, my art teacher bemoaned the fact that if she said the sky was blue, I coloured it yellow, orange, red and purple. Blue water was blue, green, white and black. Grass was green, yellow and brown and the leaves on the trees and flowers in the fields were whatever…
Be Strong in the Lord part 5
Stand firm then, … with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. Yesterday was Easter Sunday. A special time for family and friends to gather together. For Christians, it is often marked as a day of remembrance (even if it doesn’t technically agree with the calendar). As part of…
Hurry Up, and Wait
Forty-five minutes to travel six and a half kilometers! Talk about getting nowhere fast! On the road to visit our son in St. Jean sur Richelieu, we encountered traffic the likes of which we never experience at home. There was nothing we could do about it except wait it out. After hours of driving the…
Just beginning…
Do you ever feel like you’re on a treadmill? or that you just keep going around and around making the same mistakes over and over again? Do you ever start out with the best of intentions and then find yourself making the same poor choices you made the last time you were in a similar…
The Race
It feels as though it has been a very long time since I sat down to write. In the past couple of weeks, we’ve had a funeral, some teenage rebellion, a birthday party, gallons and gallons of rain, another birthday, Mother’s Day, swimming lessons, Daddy left for sea and the cherry on top was a…