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...
