There is a melody that sings through these leaves that dance and twirl like so many ballerinas in the faintest breeze, their delicate fluttering the sound of some distant waterfall. …
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Your marriage is boring. You’re not getting anything out of the time you spend together. The sex is uninspiring. You’re not growing as a person. It’s time to start shopping …
There are two parts to this story. It starts with Margie, a woman in her mid-30s; outgoing, mother of two, a worship leader in her church (Bakerview MB, Abbotsford, B.C.), …
When Lisa and Corny Giesbrecht moved to Linden, Alta., from Belize in May 2011, they brought nothing but their two children, now five-year-old son Rudy and almost three-year-old Adina. Linden …
Sometimes God speaks on mountaintops. He spoke to my father, and 70 years later to me, in a barn. When my parents, Johann and Liese Dick, arrived from Russia in …
When I decided – in my confident, teenage way – to go to university in a city far from family, I didn’t really know how alone I would feel. I …
“The Queen of Desserts” may have been an apt title to describe my mother. She put a lot of creativity and work into the fine art of the dessert and …
One final step I think of the immense willpower Jesus needed to be fully human, to take that final step toward a painful, humiliating, slow death on the cross, and …
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Hyderabad: How one cynic changed his mind about missions
by ContributorI must have been about ten years old, sitting in one of the front pews of East Chilliwack (B.C.) Mennonite Brethren Church, probably on a Sunday evening. The young woman …
Conflict – whether it’s a disagreement with a spouse, a personality clash with a co-worker, or a church split in the making – fills most of us with anxiety. Avoiding …
At 34, I buried my mother. Half a year later, my five-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. I have seen pain. I know what it is to be angry, sad, …
It’s terrifying to be forgotten. Imagine you’re a child walking through a mall and you suddenly realize you’ve become separated from your parents. Or you’re an adult who walks into …
Those who find another use for broken things are saints. The chipped teapot for a planter, a cracked saucer for its bottom, the torn dress become clothes for a doll …
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How a girl changed my worldview
by James ToewsIt’s a girl?!” I blurted out. Three pairs of eyes peered over their masks and fixed themselves on me. Those were not the right words for the moment.
It had been another exhausting day at the clinic in Vancouver. My 21-year-old daughter Janice, who was undergoing cancer treatment, and I had left home at 9 a.m.; now, at …