“Live by the Spirit, … keep in step with the Spirit” Galatians 5:26 In the last few years, we have been marking the change from the end of summer to the beginning of winter with a short fishing trip to one of our favourite lakes. This year we spent two afternoons on this lake and […]
“Enter his gates with thanksgiving.” Psalm 100:4 Our planning of Thanksgiving dinner started at the grocery store. I was picking up items from a shopping list when I saw bone-in hams on sale. I put a big one in the shopping cart, thinking of our family gathering on Thanksgiving Monday. That started a process of […]
“…God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. “ Acts 10:40 We are in the season of Easter, Eastertide. It’s a fifty day season beginning with Easter Sunday and ending with Pentecost Sunday. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit, as […]
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. Hosea 11:1 We observe the Christmas Advent season with flexible traditions and variations each year. Spiritually we follow the Advent services in our church, and then the Christmas Eve service. We will get together as family and friends, give […]
Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. Psalm 95:2 It’s the Thanksgiving weekend. We were out Saturday morning for the last of the grocery shopping. Went to the market close to our home and bought some locally grown giant potatoes for mashed potatoes with gravy. Fourteen family members […]
“…when I go to Spain…” Romans 15:24 Our tickets and itinerary arrived. We are counting down the days for our trip to Spain. We were in Spain when Covid hit and had to fly home early and then comply with stay-at-home orders. This will be our first trip since the pandemic. We visited the western […]
“Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for.” Luke 2 We’ve been in the process of relocating. We spent some time camping out in our new house before all our belongings were delivered; painting, finding the super mailbox, visiting with our kids and grandkids. Then we returned to our old […]
“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.” Matthew 28:6 We are now in the season of Easter, a season that will take us right to the 24th of May weekend. It’s a time to enjoy the longer hours of daylight and the warming of the weather. It’s a time to start […]