Remembering Gramps

On Friday, October 24th, my grandfather passed away. Today I had the honour of presiding at his funeral with the help of a friend. Here are the words I shared. A couple days ago I asked on Facebook if anyone had any stories to send me to share about Gramps. I’d...

against the grain – part 1

There is a popular movement these days it seems. Not one I really thought I’d have to deal with. Certainly not one I want to deal with. After all, I thought people had integrity of character to be honest and real with one another. Oh, and to not do harm. But it...

hope

Hope is a funny thing. We hope for lots of things. We hope for good weather on the weekend. We hope for that new job. We hope someday we’ll cure the world’s horrible diseases. We hope our friends will be healed. But there’s so much more hope that can...

Robin Williams… I wasn’t going to do it…

I wasn’t going to make a post about Robin Williams. I was going to leave it for the “experts” and those who knew him personally. But last night we watched one of my favourite all-time movies, Dead Poets Society, and I need to say something. When you...