community – Through the Lens of Motherhood

The perfect plan

one by the faces from long ago popped up onto my screen, at exactly noon eastern standard time. Some of the faces I haven’t seen since I was 19 years old and too young and dumb to know how important those relationships would be in my life. Austria, Norway, Lithuania, Poland, US, Canada, the UKContinue reading “The perfect plan”

Vanilla Amarylla

Every year for the last few years we have a growing group of ladies at the church who have a Amaryllis race… some time in November we plant our bulbs.. (those who actually know what they are doing use the same bulb from the year before – mine always dies before she can be rebornContinue reading “Vanilla Amarylla”

Remember who we are

I wrote this particular piece for our Church magazine – however I feel it’s something that should be seen by many this year; not just our church family but every follower of Christ, every community, every person struggling with the crap that has been dealt to us in this crazy year. 2020 has been aContinue reading “Remember who we are”

The beginning

The climb is hard, not because the mountain is actually really a mountain, it’s really more of a quarter of one if you really think about it, but no … The beginning For new readers: 12 part series of the beginning

It is us.

Tim and I were away for a week to the Dominican Republic for our annual ‘just us’ holiday. After the past number of months where anger and fear and hate made way for the deaths of many in the summer shootings, the mass shootings, the Nice tragedy, Paris, Brexit, the hate crimes, bigotry, the policeContinue reading “It is us.”

May 16th

In July of 2011 people around the world gathered around us in a day of prayer and fasting for Joshua as we and he prepared for more surgery. Next week he goes in for his catheterization and on the following Monday they will again sit around a table and make decisions regarding Josh’s next intervention.Continue reading “May 16th”

Love in Action

I was asked today to think about a moment when love in action changed my life. I didn’t have to think hard to find a response, though there has been many in my life, there are a few from recent times that stand out in my memory, that cause me to feel warm and squishyContinue reading “Love in Action”

St. Pauls Bloor Street

This morning’s service was one I won’t soon forget, it was like God was in the room with us as a community, holding us together, binding us and building up a group of people that love each other so much. It was an emotional service, with a final prayer at the end for Joshua andContinue reading “St. Pauls Bloor Street”