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I've been a sports fan for a couple of weeks. 

From the opening ceremony of the 21st Winter Olympics to the closing celebration, our television was tuned to the games. I cheered at the awards, cried at the poignancy of Joannie Rochette's skate, held my breath when bobsledders crashed out, and felt the pain of those who grieved over missing their goal by a fraction of a second after hours of struggle. (I hope that very soon they will recogn...

My husband teaches in a business school, and one of the concepts I occasionally hear him discuss is an "escalating commitment to a failing course of action." In other words, not knowing when to change direction.

To someone like me, that smacks of giving in and giving up, and I hate both. When I was a child in school I loved a challenging Math problem; the more difficult they were, the better. I found great joy in persevering and finding the answer. Persistence is high o...

In the face of modern day Terrorist attacks and warnings of the same, I hope we dare to believe what King David had to say about God.

As I wrote in WIAN, God takes his own words seriously! And he wants us to do the same. David is such a good example for us in that regard. He had such a positive response to God's word.  When we read what David wrote/sang we know he took God's covenant seriously, and trusted in it. Trusted in God. ...

I saw a movie, more than a few years ago now, entitled The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, based on the novel written by Yukio Mishima. It was the chilling tale of a sailor, played by Kris Kristofferson, who falls in love with a young widow, played by Sarah Miles. Her son and his friends at first idolize the sailor because of his adventurous life, but when he leaves the sea to marry the boy's mother, they plan a terrible punishment for him.

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One of my favourite things to do at the beginning of every new year is to look back and count the blessings of the past. If I haven't already done so, I write a short reminder of each one in my Keepers journal, laying an Ebenezer stone, as the children of Israel did, saying "hitherto the Lord has led us."

But, then, there are things I need to leave in the past. Like the apostle Paul, I forget those things and press fo...

In the next couple of weeks, many of us will spend more time with family than we have spent all year. We've been looking forward to it, working to make it perfect. If not perfect, than at least perfectly delightful.

Among those gathered will be some whom we see even less often than we do the others. Grandparents, or even great-grandparents, may be there presiding over the occasion, saying, as my father used to with his beaming smile, "Look at this! What a great bunch, ...

Jeremiah brought the word of the Lord to the children of Israel, whose shepherds had led them astray, saying about them, "They have forgotten their resting place. All who found them devoured them."

Such sad words! It wasn't that they didn't have a resting place. They had forgotten it.

The place of rest for the children of Israel was in trusting God and, in trusting, following his instructions. There was both rest and ...

As we remember the many young men and women from our own country and others who died for the cause of freedom - our own and others' - let's not forget Hana Brady. 

She and too many others like her didn't live to enjoy what some brave soldiers fought for. Although she lived only 11 years, her life still makes a difference through her story sent around the world in a suitcase..

Let's remember, too, that all of th...

The last few nights I've been reading Bent Hope; a street journal, by Tim Huff.

Warning: This book, which tells stories of his encounters with homeless people on the streets of Toronto and elsewhere over a span of twenty years, should come with a pack of Kleenex.

I cry every night.

Until today I thought I was crying over

• Thomas, who was searching for his sister and cried because he lost his ...

I read a blog today that talked about a conclusion Job came to when everything he had, except his wife and a few friends, were gone. Here's what the writer said Job relied on: "He knows the way that I take" (Job 23:10). 

     That, for sure, was true. We find evidence of that truth in many places in scripture. God is never taken off guard by what shows up o...