Tender Little Flowers

Tender Little Flowers

Most parents would never think of themselves as being dysfunctional. They would also never imagine that they could be abusive to their children. But what does a dysfunctional family look like and how does a home become overtly dysfunctional? Dysfunctional families...
Everybody is God’s Somebody

Everybody is God’s Somebody

Most of us have at one time or another, been disrespected in some way. We remember how that made us feel and the range of emotions that soon followed. We all want to receive respect at some level and have our sense of self-worth validated. In Matt. 15:22, we find the...
What Kept Her There?

What Kept Her There?

“Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother……” (John 19:25) The hands and feet of an infant are a marvel to behold! Mary had surely held her baby Jesus, stroking His plump little hands and feet. At the cross, she had seen them pierced mercilessly by huge...
Is There a Child in There?

Is There a Child in There?

Once when I was a young boy, I saw a movie about a haunted house with a secret passage inside a closet. For several days afterward, I was busy making what I thought were “home improvements.” As it turned out my parents didn’t agree when they caught me cutting a hole...
Good Medicine … Bad Taste!

Good Medicine … Bad Taste!

It seems like it was just a few years ago as a child staying with my grandmother that I would develop a stomach ache. She would immediately go to her medicine cabinet and come back with a bottle of very dark tonic and a spoon. It was then that the race would begin as...
What Kept Her There?

What Kept Her There?

“Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother……”  (John 19:25) The hands and feet of an infant are a marvel to behold! Mary had surely held her baby Jesus, stroking his plump little hands and feet. At the cross, she had seen them pierced mercilessly by huge...
The Great Atrocity

The Great Atrocity

Aurora is the popular female polar bear at the Toronto zoo. Popular, even though she killed two of her cubs in October, and had a third one taken away by zoo staff for hand-rearing to prevent a similar fate. She did the same thing the year before, killing two of her...

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