It’s been said that this Perspectives course “ruins you for the rest of your life” (or something like that)-in other words, you can never be the same again. You can never continue on as if you didn’t know…

As an alumni, I’m allowed to go to any of the classes for free, plus, it behooves me to go as a marker, at least sometimes. So even if I was ( Read more... )

Continuing to pray for Sam’s physical, social, and spiritual health, it is sometimes tempting to just accept the way things are, and not expect that they’ll ever change. That would be the easy way! But it seems like God reminds me to keep praying.

As far as the motion sickness goes, I think we are accepting it… he seems to be just “getting used to ( Read more... )

My year-end thoughts were pretty clear on a couple of things:

1. I knew what I’d learned this year: to persevere in prayer, especially for loved ones who don’t yet know Christ; always keeping in mind that God answers/does things that are far above what we can ever think or imagine. Of course, I knew this before, but this year I “learned it more”. (And ( Read more... )

Here is a quote from something I just read, that shows why “showing love” to people does not always mean doing whatever makes them happy.

The quote is from one of my Perspectives students, who writes a regular piece on the Torah (called Torahbybtes). This one is on some verses from Deuteronomy 7, where it talks about God destroying “those who hate ( Read more... )

My BFF painted a canvas for me-a huge one! She titled it “Come”, and there is soooo much meaning to it, and soooo much appropriateness, it’s wonder-filling. :P

She mentions “harvest” in her explanation of the theme, and (by request) used harvest colours. Perhaps I’m actually a Harvest Person, because those are my favourite colours, and Fall is one ( Read more... )

There are not enough posts in my blog for the “fall” tag to show up, so here’s another Fall poem:

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,

Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to ( Read more... )

My mind is always boggled by politics. The candidates always sound great, each with their own side of the argument. And you just never know who to believe! That’s why I generally look to my various intelligent friends, and try to go by what they say.

Not that there isn’t some very intelligent thinking that goes on in my own house. For example, Sam ( Read more... )

WORSHIP

How wonderful to feel safe with you! “Without you, nothing makes sense”, but with you, everything does! Thank you Lord, for your rich provision of “these God-chosen lives all around”, such precious friends! *(NOTE: this is the day after Connections Sunday, when we met the two wonderful couples who live in walking distance of us, who are ( Read more... )

Actually, it’s been quite awhile now, that we’ve been allowing our men to be “Mr. Mom”:

• my Dad knit baby sweaters for all us kids;
• my brothers always had to have their turn to wash dishes;
• my son had his Dad in the delivery room (like most dads these days); who also rocked  him to sleep several times;
• I can recall countless photos of my sister’s ( Read more... )

Do you think I’ll EVER get over this moved-to-Ottawa thing? I’m just waiting for the full year to be up, and see what that does. There’s only one large box left, full of the paper that we used to wrap things in when we were packing. The used paper that is, we still have a thick bunch of it that wasn’t even used. The used paper is being used for ( Read more... )