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You might wonder about the title of my blog. In truth, all things are beyond my control. Even though my choices are real and do lead to consequences that I…
Celebrating a most difficult virtue A boy was standing at the bottom of a “down” escalator looking up. A lady passed by and said, “Are you okay? Are you lost?”…
With all that 2020 brought, maybe we face bigger questions. I was singing to my 3-year-old grandson Judah, “Do you know the muffin man?” Later his mom said: “Judah, God…
It’s no overstatement to say that 2020 has been a difficult year. Of course, the major story has been the global pandemic. But there have been other stories as well. …
2020 is finally winding down. It can’t happen fast enough. It feels like we were given a gigantic Time Out by our mothers or something. Each morning I wake up…
By anyone’s reckoning, 2020 has been an unusual year. Of course, no one will be able to talk about 2020, without speaking about COVID-19. But let’s not forget the “Black Lives Matter”…
All of us who have celebrated Christmas in Church, are familiar with Isaiah 9:6. “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government…
Christmas was a time when my brothers told me lies. “Lick that lamp post. It’s good for you. You gotta do it.” It was 150 below zero and I fell…
My older brothers had a favourite Christmas tradition. They used to save up the cardboard tubes from those rolls of wrapping paper and whap me with them until my mother…
Whoever said, “May you live in interesting times” certainly got his wish. Thanks to the Coronavirus, peace and comfort seem in shorter supply than toilet paper these days. As I…
By anyone’s reckoning, 2020 has been an unusual year. Of course, no one will be able to talk about 2020, without speaking about COVID-19. But let’s not forget the “Black…
The moment you step off the train in Obendorf, Austria, you’ll think you’re in a fairy tale. Ambling through the postcard hamlet is the Salzach River; the snow-capped Alps watch…
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