I was three when Social Services brought Mary to our home. Recently born Mary. Angelic face. Fair. Lanky. Homeless. Unwanted. “Mentally retarded,” the social workers explained when dropping her off. An unclaimed parcel with no return address. With no available crib, Mom lined a banana box with blankets, carefully folding …
His life and brutal death by Roman crucifixion are historical facts. The earth shook. The sky blackened. The curtain in the temple, a four-inch-thick tapestry representing the separation between God and humanity, ripped from top to bottom by an invisible hand. His Father’s hand. For three days, Jesus Christ stayed …
She’s a faded memory now, the recent high school grad in spectacles and seersucker, standing at the edge of Rome’s massive Trevi Fountain. Me. Tossing a coin over my shoulder. Spinning to see where it landed. I can’t remember what, or even if, I wished anything, all those decades ago. …
I’m sure it’s out there. Waiting for me. The single placemat on my side of the dining table. In a few minutes I’ll leave my computer and check. While I still worked outside our home, I left the house before breakfast. After a half-hour commute to the office, I …
I thought I knew everything once. Young, quick of tongue, pregnant with opinions and quietly rebellious. Having travelled around the sun a few more times since youth, I see how wrong I was about most things that fuelled my arrogant words. The mental replays make me cringe. There I am, …
I heard it as a true story, but perhaps it’s just a really great parable. A certain country had been at war with another. From a high cliff above the sea, mounted messengers watched for returning naval ships, their sharp eyes focussed below. A patchy fog blanketed the water, interrupting …
After the war ended, Jim, one of the few surviving members of his regiment, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), had the devastating task of identifying his fallen comrade’s bodies. Fifty-seven years later, those memories haunted him.
I generally don’t like animated movies. But last Boxing Day, our three eldest granddaughters introduced me to Encanto, a new movie from Disney that pleasantly surprised me. “Would you watch it again?” one asked a few weeks later. “I would. And I did! Gampa and I watched it together.” She …
It’s hard staying in shape when one isn’t athletic, and their primary vocation requires sitting at a desk. That’s me. But I love walking, although this winter’s frigid temperatures often trap me inside. Our sheepdog, Cash, who took me for twice-daily walks until the great winter chill set in), abruptly …
“People love lists,” I heard my friend Scott Fitzsimmons say during a radio interview on Yorkton’s 98.5 The Rock FM. Jordan, his friend and colleague, wanted the station’s audience to hear about Scott’s newly established YouTube channel, “Scott loves Christian Music.” He won’t be ranking the albums and titles he …
