On the anniversary of D Day my mind wanders to my father. A few years before my dad died, he developed an illness that left him disabled to a degree. He was sent to Kitchener Ontario to a special clinic that tried to help him with his problem. On the day of his release from […]
Month: June 2019
How many balls are you juggling
Do you tend to compartmentalize all the different areas of your life? Career goes there, relationship goes here, spirituality fits there, and health . Or maybe your compartmentalizing is temporal instead of spatial in your thinking. During the workday you do what you must, this evening you’ll do what you love and have some fun, […]
You Know Me
Abraham Lincoln would say, “I have been driven many times to my knees, by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all those about me seemed insufficient for the day”. That’s how I felt the day my first granddaughter was born. Born at 24 weeks gestation,given […]
The eye of Faith
We lived in Tottenham at the time and my wife had met a lady who had invited her to go to a Baptist church board meeting of all things, on a Saturday night! She went to this meeting and low and behold there was a church split that very night, and the minister lost half […]
No Stroke for You
I had my first heart attack at 50, and by 60 had open heart surgery. Three or four years after the surgery I was invited to join a drug trial. They were testing a low dose blood thinner that was currently on the market at high doses for other purposes. This trial was to prove […]
Love Money
If you really commit yourself to the idea, can you earn $1 from doing something you love? Very often people who are stuck in the pattern of doing work they dislike will shun simple opportunities to earn small amounts of money doing something they love. They assume that if they could only earn a few […]
Entering the Kingdom
When we came to Canada, my Mom made a huge sacrifice for me in leaving her parents and brother behind, so I could have a better life here.I remember it as clearly today as the day we left waving goodbye from the cab window to my Grandmother and Grandfather, and my little dog Bruce.She was […]