Tag: family

  • Sculpture Selfies

    Sculpture Selfies

    My latest in the Christian Courier (June) ___________ This photo is a favorite of mine. It is a selfie of sorts, taken with my dad in 2018 at the Waterloo Clay and Glass Museum, down the road from where my parents live. The exhibit was a 30-year retrospective of the work of Susan Low-Beer, a…

  • summer holidays – making memories?

    summer holidays – making memories?

    It took me a few years to get it, but I have now accepted the obvious – namely, that summer holidays aren’t about me. Vacations aren’t about me lounging in a hammock as I read a series of novels or about me leisurely exploring the natural world with camera in hand. Of course that doesn’t mean there’s…

  • Hospitality and Family

    A sermon preached this past Sunday – which we marked as Christian Family Sunday. ___________________________________ Have you ever been on the receiving end of hospitality?  Can you remember a moment when you were a stranger – yet you were welcomed without reserve by another? Perhaps given a meal to eat, a place to sleep, a…