Have you noticed lately how much more daylight we are seeing. Each day it's getting light earlier and staying light longer and as Martha would say: That's a good thing.Spring is not only an awesome time of the year but it's also a great metaphor for life. No matter how dark, cold and long the…
Praying or Playing?
A while back I read a story that said 58% of sport fans pray that their team will win. I'm not sure what to make of that, other than wild speculation concerning the spiritual condition of Toronto Maple Leaf fans. 58 %, so how would, or more importantly how should, God respond to those prayers?…
Cold enough for you?
Have you picked up on the fact that winter isn’t my favourite season? As a matter of fact winter doesn’t even rank in the list of my top favourite seasons. (which just happen to be summer, summer, summer and autumn) But it’s not just the weather, it’s having to listen to everyone gripe about the…
Ouch
Recently I heard about a four year old boy in Ontario who suffered frost bite on his tongue when he licked the frozen window on his school bus. Ouch. When I was a kid there was always the story about the kid who got stuck to a sign post in the winter when they licked…
Smile, it’s good for You
Last month Grand Manan Island lost one of its oldest residents, a man that the media has embraced over the past several years. There have been television specials aired about him and magazine articles written about him. Part of the fascination seems to be that even in his tenth decade, Oliver Green has continued to…
Chill
It suddenly dawned on me how cold it was. I was filling up my car a little while ago and realized that I was cold and not just a little cold either. And then I had an epiphany. It was minus 14 and I was pumping gas with my leather jacket wide open and no…
The Furture is Here!
I can still remember when I got my first calculator that would fit in my pocket. It was in High School and it cost what then seemed like a fortune. But it could do so much, add, multiply, divide etc. It could even do percentages and find the square root of any numbers. At least…
Gotta Hate that
You gotta hate it when a plan doesn’t come together. When Jason Best heard that a local theatre was going to be showing the controversial movie “The Interview” he began to see dollar signs. Best said that he heard all the hype about the movie and its limited showing and purchased $650.00 in tickets with…
Sorry George
Well, that learned him. And it certainly acted as a deterrent because he never did it again. But what if he didn’t do it the first time? Just recently a South Carolina resident was exonerated 70 years after he was executed. And that my friends is why I’m opposed to capital punishment. In 1944 George…
Cancelling Christmas
It’s funny, not funny ha-ha but funny strange, how quickly we lose interest. This summer when the victims numbered in the hundreds, news about the Ebola crisis was everywhere. There were fund raising efforts happening and you couldn’t open a newspaper or turn on the television without reading or hearing dire predictions. But now, not…