Category Archives for "Miscellany"

Embracing the growth process is realising we learn by repetition. Toddlers learn to walk by falling and then getting up again over, and over again. Personally, I often feel like a failure when life brings me back in a circle to a place where I am staring at a situation again that I have faced […]

Happy New Year! I feel like I need some more faith for 2020. Faith to make it a year that matters. At this time of year, many new years resolutions get made. Two weeks from now, most of them are broken. People have given up on them, and they have settled back into their old […]

It’s not always all or nothing! I know, some things are easier to handle that way. Like exercise; I find it easier to exercise every morning than to just do it a few times a week. It becomes part of life’s rhythm then. Sometimes All or Nothing is Easiest The success of today motivates the […]

I have written a few times before about my attempt to live my life more focused and minimal. And if you are one of those brave souls that have embarked on a similar journey, you know that in the real life, that can be a real challenge. Okay, who am I kidding? Can be? Not […]

Putting God first in your life is the very first principle of living your best life. To me that is not optional. It is required. If you wish to live your best life, you will do it in right relationship with God. Some think that I overdo the best life emphasis. I don’t think I […]

I was so delighted in Cuba. Delighted by what God did through me and our team for them. And delighted by how the Cuban church blessed me. My prayer going to Cuba was that just as we would bless the Cuban Church, so I would receive blessing from them. That was not a selfish prayer. […]

I have to admit that I was surprised in Cuba. Not everything was as expected. I expected a greater sense of desperation. Instead, in spite of Cuba’s challenges, there was a sense of growing well being. That is not to minimize the challenges Cuba faces. Or for that matter, the uncertainty. Our bus tour guide […]

Cuba is a land of great challenge. Yet even though it faces these challenges, there is an atmosphere of great hope in Cuba. There is a sense of imminent positive change in the air. And yet, who knows how much of that change will materialise. The USA is trying to mend their relationship with Cuba, […]

Today is the day we are wrapping up our Cuban adventure. Time to check out of our resort and board a plane back home to Canada. Soon I can tell you what we actually did in Cuba while we were there. I have hung around enough missions teams and have enough world experience to know […]

Well hello there! We should now have been loving on Cuba for four days. It is hard to pre-write posts like this. I can’t predict our adventures or misadventures in Cuba. Often as people we struggle with the hero complex. We desire to help people because they need our help. We help them because we […]