A Senior Moment: ‘The Other’

Along with several grade two classmates, I would eagerly escape our public elementary school promptly at 3:30. Once off the property on one particular afternoon,...

A Senior Moment: ‘The Other Kennedy’

June 5th will mark the 50th anniversary of the violent death of Bobby Kennedy, a presidential candidate felled by Sirhan Sirhan’s bullet at the...

A Senior Moment: ‘Who Am I?’

Earlier this month I found myself back in high school. It was just after Mental Health Week in Ontario and I had been invited...

A Senior Moment: ‘A Perfect Gift’

It’s not that I never appreciated having breakfast in bed on Father’s Day. Other years, I happily accepted those carefully chosen ties or socks....

A Ministerial Message: Avondale United Church Stratford

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New Perspectives: Tiny Trilliums – by Rev. Heather McCarrel

These past few days the trilliums have begun to take over the hillsides and sunny patches along the forest floor and beside the park...

New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “NORMAL-LESS”

They tell us this is the “new normal.”  I don’t like the term. Currently, there is precious little that is “normal” about life across...

Lent is a time to take pause

Our 20 year old cat has gone blind.  She has thinned down to a shell of what she used to be and her once...

New Perspectives: Amazing Grace – a powerful lesson by Rev. Heather McCarrel

In the three years I served as their Student Minister we only sang the hymn Amazing Grace once and that one time taught me...

New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “SHE’S JUST SHY”

Labelling of children starts early. Over the years, I have frequently heard a parent hastily explain a little one’s awkward reticence to speak when...

When Less is More – Rev. Heather McCarrel

Here we are again, another month-long lockdown in Ontario.  This time the lockdown looks different than the first two.  This time we have the...

A Ministerial Message: Faith Lutheran Church Port Elgin – a Sermon despite a...

Today is a very stormy blizzard day and church was cancelled because the roads are closed. And so, I will miss seeing smiling faces...

New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “MY DIARY AND ME”

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.----- Oscar Wilde As I was writing yesterday’s first entry in...

New Perspectives: Dancing in the rain by Rev. Heather McCarrel

The long awaited daffodils have finally begun to bloom in my neighborhood.  I didn’t notice them until later in the day, I spied their...