Global friends

This week we are in Toronto for meetings. We were asked to come in for the visit of international guests, who also happen to be well known to us – friends indeed! So it was welcome news and we have already enjoyed a lunch with them to catch up on personal news! This is one…

A long obedience…

I finished Eugene Peterson’s classic book, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, and found again this theme of God’s enduring call, our struggle to follow in a fallen world and the deep blessings that come from our faithful response to that call. I am reminded again that blessing is no guarantee of a way…

The most important things in life…

Just inside the door of my sister-in-law’s home, above the cupboard with all the coats and shoes in it, was a lovely artistic sign. As you entered you really couldn’t miss it. It read, the most important things in life are not things. The reference of course is to people, people whom we love and…