As a Speech-Language Pathologist, just before Christmas can be an extremely busy time in the Rehab and Chronic care hospital where I work. Besides my out-patient responsibilities, I am currently responsible for a chronic floor and a rehab floor, and as Christmas...
This year has come and gone so quickly. I am thinking that time moves so quickly as if it has gotten away from me somehow. But what is time really? In an attempt to define time, I think of all the things it has meant to me. I have wasted time. I have also done things...
It will soon be the beginning of a new year. A year that will bring rejoicing and grief, laughter and tears, good times and bad. Will it also mark the year that Christ will return? No one can know, because Jesus tells us that no one knows the day or...
In last week's devotional, The Wilderness Experience, Part 5, we discovered that everything in life can, potentially, be a false god, if we make it our focal point. This was the last of Jesus' temptations, but there are still three major lessons to be learned from...
"The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!" (Prov. 19:24 The Message) This is kind of a different thought, don't you think? Have you ever met anyone who was too lazy to lift the food from their plate to their mouth?...
"Look mom!" cried my son with more enthusiasm that I had heard him use in over a day. "The two water glasses came apart!" I raised an eyebrow. I mean, this isn't usually a big deal to pull two stacked water glasses apart. He smiled. "They were stuck," he said. "I had...
There is an fascinating passage hidden deep in the centre of Deuteronomy: "When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, 'Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,' be sure to...
My morning run the other day was a bit more challenging than usual. Recent snow covered the paved track at the local college where I like to run, making it impossible to tell where it was. As I stood staring at the whiteness, I realized I had a number of choices: I...
Evening found me rummaging through the swim bags. Shampoo. Check. Conditioner. Check. Lotion. Check … My boys and I had decided to participate in the earliest lane swim at the local YMCA the following morning, and I knew that if I waited until morning to get the swim...
"Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7 NIV) My body groaned as I spit the powdery stuff out of my mouth. What on earth was I doing with snow in my mouth? Why was I lying on such a cold floor? Why was I lying...