What then is worship?

I have worked in water safety for almost four decades; in pools, on beaches, swimming lessons, coaching, program development and lots and lots of other bits and pieces. Periodically, I’ll take a position at a new facility or an old facility will revamp. When this happens, it is often time for a performance review. These…

“Hey Mum!  Just wanted you to know that while I’ve been here this summer, I’ve become a really good stripper.  One of the guys I spend a lot of time with  is a great stripper and when I watch him I am amazed.  He can even do it blindfolded!” Is anybody else a little bit…

Two days… I’ve made it two days.  Because of my clumsiness and tendency to fall down, my husband doesn’t like for me to walk outside when the weather is foul or the ground is slippery.  We’ve had two beautiful days in a row and both days I’ve gone for nice long walks.  Day one 4.8…

Did you ever do something half-heartedly?  Are you a multi-tasker?  Highly skilled in working on two or 20 things at once? Reading in Deuteronomy, there are a number of places where we are told to do something with ALL of our effort and resources.  In fact, when I checked, the NIV cited 167 times when…

Sign outside a church: When you enter through these doors, you haven’t arrived but you have taken a step in the right direction. It is so easy to think, when things are going well, that we have it all together.  What crushing disappointment it can be when something happens to make us realize that we…

When I was a young teenager, I went to a cadet camp.  The girl who was my roommate and my best friend at camp became pregnant.  In an effort to say goodbye to her and honour our friendship while coming to grips with the enormity of her situation, I wrote her a poem.  I do…