Seek and you will find

Seek and you will find

It’s the as-yet-unpacked box, long forgotten in the attic or the garage or the basement or on the top shelf of the closet or under a bed. It’s the invisibly present thing in the room, like what’s been supporting the bedside lamp. If you’ve ever moved house in...
There’s provision for that

There’s provision for that

This thought may occur right after a sumptuous B&B breakfast: “I won’t need to eat again today.” Or it may occur (with a slight groan) after an unusually copious restaurant lunch. It is somewhat embarrassing then, when in late afternoon, the search begins to find...
That’s Life!

That’s Life!

“I have come to give you everything in abundance, more than you expect – life in its fullness until you overflow!” JESUS (John 10:10b as translated in the PASSION version) What do y’all think? Are these just pretty words, hackneyed phrases, off-the-cuff, thoughtless...
Lives in process

Lives in process

In the era before computers (there really was one!) vacationers traveled with camera cases in which they kept rolls of light-sensitive film. As photo-worthy occasions arose, those cameras were frantically removed from the case and aimed at the desired subject, not...
His ways are not our ways

His ways are not our ways

Canadian art films were, once upon a time, notorious for ending mysteriously, with no resolution to the storyline. They left the viewer in disbelief that two hours had been ‘invested’ only to get stung with a non-ending, with the challenge of filling in the blanks,...