Last month, my husband Terry and I volunteered at a YWAM (Youth With a Mission) base near Tijuana, Mexico. One of our main responsibilities was called "hospitality". This included cleaning up the dining room after a meal, cleaning and … Read more

Recently, a post on social media caught my eye. The picture was of a bunch of groceries and doodads in shopping bags. Above the picture were the words, "Grief Groceries". The story was about a woman who had lost her loved one. A friend … Read more

One of my windows faced the main street, and I could see the foot traffic that passed by. Parents waited with their children for the school bus, and apartment residents waited for a taxi, Uber, or the city bus. A very thin young man with … Read more

A PresbyCan devotional that I recently wrote focused on the beauty of words and language as a vehicle for praising God. As regular PresbyCan readers know, each day's devotional includes a hymn of the … Read more

"Come, look at this," my wife said. Gardening is in my blood. I suppose that I inherited it from my two grandfathers who farmed. When spring comes, I want to plunge my fingers and hands into the dirt and plant vegetables and flowers. … Read more

I'm still reading the Peanuts cartoons, even though no newspaper has carried them since Charles Schulz died in February, 2000. I am especially still learning from … Lucy. Yes, Lucy! One … Read more

Every afternoon when I walked into the house, things had disappeared. Our possessions shrank by the day. Well … not really. We were moving, and my wife was doing most of the packing while I taught school during the day. Since I didn't … Read more

My granddaughters love to play hide-and-go-seek. They will spend hours at it, if I am willing to play with them. When it is my turn to seek them out, I discover their hiding spots quickly. When it is my turn to hide, however, it often … Read more

As a young camp counsellor at Gracefield Christian camp, near Ottawa, Canada, I really enjoyed canoeing. I practised my J-stroke, carefully loaded the flat-bottomed aluminum canoes, and even learned how to right a tipped canoe in deep … Read more

At ages fourteen and nine, my sister Tracey and I were invited to spend the summer without our parents at our grandparents' homes, one in North Carolina and the other in Georgia, USA. Mom and Dad always had one rule for whenever we were … Read more