Year: 2001

It's interesting how with patience, things grow and multiply; be those things crocus bulbs bursting, blooming in the spring, then in the course of the fall and winter, silently, softly, multiplying to bring forth more plants the following year; or … Read more

Someone who was surfing the net wrote me, saying that they had come across the Daily website when a devotional I had written happened to be there, and they were inquiring about the site. I obliged, and encouraged them to … Read more

I always wanted to write a message, put it in a bottle and send it down the river. My imagination sees the bottle bobbing with the current of the river into the Great Lakes water system, over Niagara Falls, across … Read more

Have you ever played a game of hide and seek? The game is well known: several people go and hide, and then one person sets off on a mission to find them, so that on the next turn the one … Read more

When my children were little, they were frightened by the loud pyrotechnics of our summer thunderstorms. One night, a particularly violent one rolled through the area. It was broiling with dark, threatening thunderheads, rumbling with ominous warning and punctuating the … Read more

He stood at the door of the church, eagerly awaiting arrivals for whom he could perform his task — handing out the bulletin. You could see the excitement in his wide eyes and the smile that lingered on his little … Read more

I have a small shed in my back yard that I have been wondering what I should do with. I would like an area to have a workshop, but I also need some storage. I was thinking about modifying the … Read more

I stand at the top of the stairs that lead into the park. The stairs are perched on the top of a hill that overlooks a valley. At the base of the valley is the Saskatchewan River, a blue-grey rush … Read more

Every morning, on a grassy patch in the traffic circle at the busy entrance to the little city, he stands, waving, blowing kisses and calling, "God loves you and so do I! Have a good day now, darlin'. God loves … Read more

In yesterday's devotional, I wrote about going to England last spring to see my dad, ill with an inoperable brain tumour. I came back to Canada but returned to England in July as he became much worse. His sight went … Read more