Do you have a sweet or savory tooth? Let me explain further. When you go to a party do you lean towards savory nibbles or the sweet items? I’m a sweet tooth myself and sometimes need to restrain myself from eating too much sugar. Then I read a prayer calling Jesus, our life, our sweetness and our hope. Oh, I was stopped in my tracks when I meditated upon the sweetness of Jesus. In the book of Psalms it states: How sweet are your words to my taste,    sweeter than honey to my mouth! Psalm 119:103 NRSV Jesus’ words are like sweet honey to our lips. A balm for our souls.…

I was driving home listening to the Christian radio station in my hometown. The two compères were asking the listening audience to ring in about times when they were embarrassed or put in a difficult, awkward situation and what they did about it. How did they respond? Someone rang in and described the time they went on a work picnic and were trying to make an impression with their new boss. Unknowingly they sat on an ants nest and ended up doing the “ants in my pants” dance, trying to dislodge all the ants that were crawling all over her. She got stung twice and it stung so badly, she…

It was a lovely afternoon birthday picnic at a park. Abigail, my six-year-old granddaughter, came up to myself, my daughter Melissa and her husband Scott sitting over to one side of the delicious food spread out on tables. Abigail had a paper boat plate in her hands full of potato chips. As she approached, she said to Scott, “Uncle Scott, I’ll give you a chip if you give me your chair.” Uncle Scott replied, “Nope. But you can sit on my lap.” As she happily climbed up onto Uncle Scott, who is 6 foot 3 inches, he said to her “Better you sit on my lap than I sit on…

Don’t you hate it when you miss bin day? (The day when the city council empties your own personal house bin once a week.) Especially when you’ve had extra rubbish from family being over and the bin is full! Then also it won’t get emptied now for two weeks because it is on a two-week cycle. Uggh!! This is where I become very inventive and really pedantic about using the recycling bin for all the recyclable items. And the extra strength to squash down items or use my art of packing really well. Sometimes, though, this can backfire on you because you pack everything in so tightly that when the…

I’ve been tired before but not tired like this for a long time. You know when your brain is not working well. You keep forgetting things, forgetting appointments not because of old age but because your brain is a little bit fried and does not know what day it is. That is jetlag. I was sitting in a prayer service the other day and was nodding off badly quite a few times. I was trying to stay awake but every few seconds felt my eyes close and my head start falling to my chest. It was time to rest. That deep rest that my mind, body and spirit really needed.…