Just What I Don’t Want For Christmas This Year! As the days to Christmas wind down, an unwanted gift came our way. I told Ed yesterday that one of the secretaries at our church phoned to say she has tested positive for…

Waiting Is The Last Thing I Want To Do “The grandkids are waiting for Christmas in Edmonton like a raging bull,” Ed told me yesterday. His family there is not able to come to Melville for Christmas. Ed and Ruby can’t go…

Who Falls Asleep At The Wheel? “Things that happen just once can have deadly results,” I shared with Ed, my old friend in Saskatchewan. I think that most of us will admit to a little lapse of attention now and again when…

Keep Away From Me, But It’s Not Personal When I phoned Ed yesterday, his wife Ruby answered the phone and said that I couldn’t talk to Ed because she had put him outside for curbside pickup. I knew she was kidding me,…

Are You Ready For What Comes Next? Ed said yesterday, “It used to be clear that the big event after Halloween was Christmas. Now, who knows what will get canceled next?” I agreed that since the coming of Covid 19, so many…

Be As Patient As Job Ed asked me a question that has no definite answer. We were talking about the increase in Covid 19 cases across Canada yesterday. I said, “With this second wave of Covid, we will need the patience of…