Family Life

After tucking the boys into bed I try to disentangle myself from their incessant need to chat and leave the room without too much trauma. Often Joel will call out, “I just need to tell you one more thing, Daddy!” Joel’s “one more thing” can last quite a while, and I’m reluctant to get sucked [...]

Tonight’s youth group was small. We had six leaders and three youth. The evening’s speaker had wondered about canceling altogether. But no, we went ahead anyway. Many or few, we bring God’s Word to those who are willing to listen. A small group is always a concern though. Usually you need a certain critical mass, [...]

I managed to get off work early today again. I could get used to this! Today’s catching up involved a trip to the bank, where I discovered quite by accident that the government had made a substantial deposit to my account. A week-and-a-half ago I’d been in an awful rush trying to file my tax [...]

I’m thankful for My wife Our boys Our home My job Our church family Our extended family In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada [...]

This weekend is the Thanksgiving holiday. Technically the holiday is on Monday, but a long weekend is plenty reason to give thanks. We hosted a Thanksgiving feast tonight, for our friends Rob and Eleanore and their two kids. For this kind of activity, we needed to decide what time we’d be sitting down to dinner [...]