He was 52 and his father in his mid-70’s when they learned about each other. No kidding – they had each lived all those years without knowing the other one existed. Well, the son, whose name was John, knew he had a father, or had at one time, but his mother had told him that [...]

Would you let go of your child if it meant giving them a better life? This past Sunday I was watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, a show that I love even though it makes me cry.  It was the season premiere – did you see it? Instead of building a house for one family they [...]

What brings you hope when you're feeling down?

It was almost 15 years ago that the Spice Girls implored us, “Tell me what you want, what you really, really want.” (Sorry for the earworm.)   The mystery of what they were actually singing has long been solved, (“really really really wanna zigazig ha” still makes no sense) but many of us are still trying [...]

There are about 2,930 names in the Bible, but only about a hundred of them finished well.  Canadian, Judy Rae, wants to finish well. “Heaven is looking better every day,” she said, her personality still shining through brightly, in spite of the cancer. The disease has now reached her brain, both in the anterior and [...]

I am a Native North American woman. I was abandoned at the age of four, with five other siblings, in a hotel in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. My parents were on a drinking spree. They were alcoholics and had left my oldest brother, who was seven years old, to care for us. The police and the [...]

The Hope of a New Country

Many immigrants have dreams of success and prosperity in the west. When Adeline-Jane and her family took the leap and moved to Canada, they were filled of hope. But months of looking for work, Adeline-Jane and her husband started to question if this was the promised land that they had dreamt of. Related What does [...]

I remember waking up and not wanting to get out of bed. I couldn’t take it anymore. I didn’t want to live. My mother died after she gave birth to my sister. I was seven. My dad couldn’t fill the void she had left. I was so tired of being sad all the time. As [...]

Hope During Chronic Pain

How does a person deal with chronic pain? Marisa’s husband began to suffer from chronic pain after his surgery. Since then he has gone through discouragement since there seems to be nothing that modern medicine can do to cure it. However, even through this time, Marisa and her husband hold on to a single hope: [...]

Profile on: Michael "Pinball" Clemons, former player for the CFL team Toronto Argonauts.