Life Lessons

Reflections of 2012…Secrets of 2013

As of this day, the secrets of 2012 have been disclosed. The treasure boxes of each day, week, and month have been opened, and moment by moment another year was born. Some of the treasure boxes held hard things, didn’t they? We quickly shut the lids and hoped we wouldn’t have to go there. But… Read More Reflections of 2012…Secrets of 2013

Christmas, Life Lessons

Christmas Vignettes: A Manger For The Bread of Life

Ravenous hunger. Insatiable thirst. A world grasping headlong and heedlessly for the unsatisfying sustenance it so deceitfully offers to itself. Starving for the Bread of Life. A starving world- this is the world to which Jesus came.  Yet people were not hungry for Him. A waiting world- this is the world to which Jesus came.… Read More Christmas Vignettes: A Manger For The Bread of Life

Life Lessons

Compassion Of The Tiny

“Ohhhh Mommy!” she gasps, “It’s all alone on the floor! It’s lonely and cold and it doesn’t have a mommy! Oh, the poor little thing. I’m going to put it right up here so it will be safe and warm. There!” I absentmindedly give my consent without looking at what she is doing. We don’t… Read More Compassion Of The Tiny

Life Lessons

A Pathway Rough

The pathway stretches in front of me as far as I can see…clear cut through the forest, then through a field.  Soon a boardwalk bridge carries me quickly over an inlet of the Bay of Fundy, and up a dune where the view is breathtaking. Onward I march with my head held high, breathing in the… Read More A Pathway Rough