Stupidity

Merle8 CommentsLife Lessons, ,

This is freeze-up season in Northwestern Ontario. This is also the time of year that my mother moved to paradise, about 22 years ago. Those two realities are related, in my mind. When I left my home in 1971 to begin living in NW Ontario, my mother had concerns for my safety. Where our family lived, freeze-up wasn’t a season. It was an occasional event that didn’t often produce enough ice to skate on the farm pond. So Mom’s repeated warning (for the rest of her life) was, “You’ll be careful on the ice, won’t you?” And my response was Read More

My Story, His Glory

Merle3 CommentsLife Lessons, Spiritual Growth, , ,

“If God spared me from a worse experience, why didn’t he just spare me from the whole thing?” That’s what my honest self, or (occasionally) my cynical self, really wants to know. I am still recovering from a pretty serious head injury, nearly six weeks ago. I fell flat on my back, off a ladder and onto a concrete floor. I didn’t suffer any spinal injury. I did break my skull in 3 places, and bruised the little brain inside. One friend said, “The angels must have put padding under your back before you hit the floor.” I said, “But Read More