Reflections through a Lens of Faith from Pastor Jen
Two ten-year old girls, best friends since nursery school are separated when one family moves to Colorado. A 50 year old surgeon develops back pain and has to step back from the kind of surgeries he enjoyed. A woman was anticipating an exciting promotion in her company but the organization decided to go in a […]
Aisha Ahmad is a scholar at the University of Toronto whose area of expertise includes international relations in the midst of disaster zones such as in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Lebanon, Mali, and Kenya. She knows about stress. She knows about crises. She knows about global threats. And recently she wrote a Twitter thread about hitting
I don’t think I’m alone in admitting that I tend to like to hear myself talk. Sometimes it’s aloud. Sometimes it’s in writing. Sometimes it’s in pictures. I share my opinions on Twitter; my travels on Facebook; and my food and dog pictures on Instagram. I’ve made one TikTok video – but that’s another story.
Last week I went to the local post office to purchase some stamps. When I need stamps, I usually purchase them from a vending machine where there isn’t a choice in the type of stamp to purchase. So I was a bit taken aback when the clerk asked me, “Which stamps would you like?” I
This week my siblings and I prepared my mother’s obituary. It’s a challenge to summarize a life of 88 years into an intelligible blurb that can be posted on a website and shared with a newspaper (which charges by the line). We decided to focus on three of her passions: family, church, and music. The