“Come quick!” Gary yelled at me from our upstairs bedroom.  I hurried to the window to see what he was all excited about.  On the ground near our driveway was a huge black crow enjoying a hot breakfast.  He had snagged an unsuspecting Blue Jay while its mate was screeching at him on a tree branch above.  After one half of this helpless creature was gone, he managed...

“What is Wordle?” you might ask.  It is a recent online word game that has been created by someone with the last name Wardle.  A grid is used to guess a five-letter hidden word in six tries.  The colour of the letters changes to show how close you are to the answer on each line you input.  Green is for the right letter in the right spot, yellow the letter in the...

Do you remember that Johnny Cash song written in 1959?  On February 17, our village of Churchville incurred the most flooding probably since Hurricane Hazel, also in the 1950s.  It was caused by warm weather, lots of rain, ice jams and the overflow of storage water in the pond behind our home all at once.  The pressure blew off bolted-down manhole covers on a street...

“Promise me you will bring me a wedding picture to look at when you come next Tuesday!”  commanded Nina.  Nina has become our friend at our local No Frills grocery store since the beginning of the pandemic. We started chatting with this friendly woman when she was counting all the people entering the store.  Each week we learn more about her and she learns more...

Do you stand in awe of God’s power and creativity?  Do you also stand in awe of the power and creativity that God has implanted in humankind?  If you can, take the opportunity of visiting the Niagara Falls area as Gary and I did in November. You must tour the Niagara Parks Power Station, now open to the public.  “For 100 years, this power station harnessed the...

Our ever-busy backyard squirrels are very excited every fall.  There is a tall walnut tree in our neighbour’s yard that produces many a walnut which becomes a windfall for the squirrels that love them.  As you know, walnut trees are known for their valuable wood and stain plus I received a good price for a bushel of walnuts from the tree in our first parsonage in...

Recently I decided to create a new word, “Bibleless” – at least it is new to me.  I discovered that that four-letter suffix “less”, meaning without, has been attached to numerous words to become helpless, Godless, useless, clueless, hopeless, worthless and so on.  All these terms seem to describe countless people who have no knowledge of the Bible and therefore have...