When I was ten or eleven years old, my parents went insane and bought my sister a horse, it wasn’t long before one horse led to another, and before you knew it, I had been introduced to the concept of farming, at least in the sense that we had a small barn and livestock. When…
Behind Myself
I was walking down the hall at the hospital when I suddenly realized that I was following myself. And I was intrigued. I have been beside myself on different occasions, but I have never been behind myself. Now understand, I wasn’t actually following myself, but it seemed that way. The guy I was following looked…
Alcohol may have been a factor
Have you ever noticed how many accident reports on the news end with the words “alcohol may have been a factor”? Especially in the summertime. The interesting thing is that it doesn’t really seem to concern folks. If every weekend there was an accidental gun death, there would be a national campaign to ban guns. …
Death by Selfie
We are at Beulah Camp this week, and I heard Dr. Andrea Summers comment that more people die from taking selfies than from Shark attacks. And I had to check it out, and she was right. Bizarre.Of course, that led me down a rabbit trail of reading about people taking selfies. Between 2018 and 2021,…
The Peace to Enjoy a Sandwich
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs. . . that is the beginning of Rudyard Kipling’s iconic poem “If.” It is also a fair description of an eight-second video that has recently gone viral. The video shows a gentleman calmly eating a sandwich in a square in the French…
Be Careful Little Eyes. . .
The other day, I saw a Facebook meme about the Jewish family who adopted Louis Armstrong when he was seven. Maybe you’ve seen it. It started showing up in 2021.The story was very moving. And very false. When Armstrong was a boy, his mother worked for the Karnofsky family, and they were very kind and generous…
Really?
I guess I never really thought about it. In a recent article I was reading, Frank Jacobs elaborated on the theory of “Mental Map Oversimplification (MMO)” That’s not an actual theory, it’s just a term that Jacobs made up, but that doesn’t make it any less real. Jacobs maintains that because maps are so…
Happy Birthday
It was my birthday the other day, and it was well celebrated on Facebook. As I read through the birthday messages, I marvelled at those who had taken the time to wish me a happy birthday. I heard from folks that I had attended junior high, high school and university with. There were posts from…
The Promise of Peace
When I was learning to preach, I heard someone quote an old preacher who said, “I take my text and divide my sermon into three parts. In the first part I tell ’em what I am going to tell ’em; in the second part—well, I tell ’em; in the third part I tell ’em what…
Sliding down the slippery slope
“One-third of Canadians fine with prescribing assisted suicide for homelessness.” Seriously, folks, that was the headline in a recent article in the National Post. The survey discovered that 27 percent of respondents said MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) should be available to those in poverty, while 28 percent said the same for the country’s 30,000…