Remembering Dad

October 20 rolls around each year, and each year this day arrives with the memories of the day Dad went to be with Jesus seemingly as fresh in my memory as they were on that day. I won’t go into the details of the morning other than to say Mom, Cath and I walked out…

Forgiven or not

So heaven has been on my mind a great deal lately. You might understand why. There’s much to be learned about what happens to us when we die. What happens in that moment when we close our eyes to this world and we awaken to the next. Hollywood has suggested that we actually experience the…

Reflections on Ottawa

We were in Ottawa from 1995 to 2000. It was five tough but wonderful years. I won’t here go into why it was tough – maybe some day – but it was also a good time. We did two mission trips, one to Jamaica and the second to Panama. The corps grew, our finances grew…