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Can Depression Be A Friend?
I have a friend. I haven’t seen her for a while now. She tends to come and go as she pleases. Every so often, she will drop in, stay a while and leave when she thinks she’s kept me company for long enough. Whenever she’s around, my days need to be re-organized. Hers is a quiet sort of demanding. Most people don’t understand her. If I’m...
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A Mother's Worst Nightmare
Twelve days after celebrating her son Jordan’s wedding, Shirley Thiessen got the phone call every parent dreads. Her son, just 23 years old, had died in a workplace accident. Hours before the phone call that changed her life, Shirley purchased a beautiful black dress. Shirley said, “To think that the God of the universe would take care of...
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Exactly 5 years ago I asked Olive to marry me. Rather than popping the question with a diamond ring, I planned to propose to her with a goat. It wasn’t a pet goat for her to keep in the yard and take for walks; it was a goat to give away to a family in need. It was what she wanted, and it’s one of the reasons I wanted to spend the rest of
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A Good God in a Dark World
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOpGTazwaEo] If God is loving and good, then why did my mom die of cancer? Perhaps you or someone you know is going through tremendous suffering -- poverty, unemployment, or a sudden death in the family. Suffering comes in varied forms, but every single person in the world has endured it. How do you reconcile...
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At age 12 years and 11 months our middle son, Clark, made his request. “Mom, I will be 13 soon and I’d really like a hamster for my birthday.” Then he waited silently, eyebrows peaked, brown eyes begging. “They’re so cute, Mom.” As the voice in my head screamed, “There will be no rodents living in my house!” I heard myself gently...
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I still remember setting the table with my heart pounding and palms sweaty, silently praying that my parents and their friends would genuinely like the food. I was in Grade 8. Making a meal from scratch and serving it to guests was my final project for Home Economics. My grade was dependent on their review. What exactly I served, I can’t recall...
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It’s that time of year again: Girl Guide Cookies are on sale across Canada! What could be better than Girl Guide cookies? How about Girl Guide Cookie Cupcakes? Girl Guides of Canada-Guides du Canada challenged Canadian chefs and bakers to create their most scrumptious recipe using their famous cookies. This delicious recipe comes from Heather White...
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The Beginning of the Universe and God
Take a look at the world around you. Where did it all come from? Cosmologists have recently arrived at the conclusion that the universe and even the multiverse (if there is one), required a 'creation event'. If this is the case then, as Stephen Hawking put it, it would require the 'hand of God'. This video explains why. Video by: Power to Change...
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