Advent: December 10
Waiting is hard, unless you are four-year-old Andrew at the doctor’s office. Our firstborn was prone to ear infections, so he was there a lot. At home he was miserable and quiet, with a hot forehead and big, glassy eyes.
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Young children have no concept of time. The child who knows that Christmas is coming goes to bed every night asking if tomorrow is Christmas and wakes up the next morning wondering if Christmas has arrived.
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In 1843, Charles Dickens introduced the world to the character Ebenezer Scrooge in his novella A Christmas Carol. Over the years, this tale has been changed, such as replacing the role of Scrooge with a busy female executive or having beloved Muppets attempt to help miserly Ebenezer.
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Recently, my husband and I stepped into a new and uncertain season due to him severely herniating a lumbar disc and needing a total disc replacement. To relieve some of our nerves during our pre-surgical appointment, the neurosurgeon decided to use humour.
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I had a recent experience of going hiking with my lovely husband, Scott. We were having a weekend away in the mountains in Canmore, Alberta, and for Scott mountains mean hiking.
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Unprecedented times. How often this year have you heard those words or some variation of them? When the disciples were with Jesus in Jerusalem in what was to be the week preceding his death and resurrection, they were also in some unprecedented times.
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When we invite our two young grandchildren to our home for a sleepover, excitement abounds and the countdown to the big event begins.
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Charles Feeney is a rich man. He made billions in the duty-free shopping market and could have been counted among the richest men in the world except for one fact: he did not use the vast majority of his wealth to enrich himself.
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