Shivering in the shed

Where is God when disaster strikes?


Where is God when disaster strikes?

That’s my takeaway quote from one of the the many readings I’ve been assigned since starting back to school in September. Here’s the rest of the quote from an article by John W. O’Malley, “The moral of the story: hang in there, and try to write something every day no matter how banal or stupid…

Our family took a little road trip to the Tri-cities yesterday. Erika and I both had things to do. Since our kids don’t naturally enjoy spending hours in the car, we added an incentive; a trip to the Lego store in St. Jacobs. Without complaint they endured the seventy-five minute drive, marched around the college…

My life in Toronto is spent, for the most part, inside an 8’x8′ padded wall cocoon. I have a desk, a chair, books, and two pictures of my hero, Eugene Peterson. In the one picture, positioned on a shelf overlooking my desk, Peterson’s head is tilted back and his eyes are on me. The speak…
This is a shout out to everyone who has encouraged me lately. As I said in my last post, you can think what you want. But as you’ll see from this post, I like encouragement. To all of you who have posted encouraging comments on my blog, thank-you. To everyone who has emailed me words…

“I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.” (Mark 11:23 NIV). I believe in moving mountains. Actually, we have one growing in our church parking…

Have you ever tried to do something nice and it backfires? That describes my life yesterday. I arrived home from Kitchener to find a foot of snow covering our driveway. Driving through it would have been impossible so I parked at the bottom and trudged my way up. After a fleeting family greeting I donned…