I just found out that the other day my youngest daughter, who is 8 years old, whispered to my very good friend : “You are a terrible mother!” Well it may not have been exactly that blunt, but it was along those lines… Then she leaned in further and backed it up with her own […]
A dear little boy lying still and pale, face down on a beach. Dead. Like many, I was shocked by and tearful about this image in the newspapers and online. Generally, I avoid bad news. I know myself and I’m overly-sensitive to it. Plus I figure that by watching the news I can’t know what’s […]
My Dad was a refugee. Like the many refugees from Syria we have been watching lately on the news reports, my Dad’s family also travelled over vast and dangerous distances to find a safe place and provision. His family had a home with an orchard in Poland. It was taken from them during World War II. The family were evicted […]
Could Jesus swim? He didn’t mind the water, did he… He could even walk on it in the middle of a storm. So I guess the water is much the same as the ground to him if he wants it to be. But for me, when I prepared to do my first open-water triathlon earlier this […]