RCMP

I am absolutely privileged to serve “J” Division of the RCMP along with eleven other chaplains. “J” Division encompasses the province of New Brunswick. The chaplains are there by the invitation of this organization which has long standing...

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 700 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 12 trips to carry that...

Football Is My Life … NOT!

I love it and this afternoon, I’ll watch it. Sometimes I am intensely glued to the screen and other times it is just white noise. The intricate plot of a well written movie requires silence and total concentration as the viewer tries to predict the outcome....

Bad News Bear

I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and am overcome with grief. (Jeremiah 8:21 NLT) I would not have wanted to be Jeremiah for many different reasons. He had a lousy message and he knew it. Every time he opened his mouth it was bad news. People knew and...

Presumption

Did you ever catch yourself presumptuously speaking for someone else? I am prone to this especially when introducing one friend to another. I caught myself in mid-sentence the other night, answering questions for someone well able to speak for himself. It is...

Associate …

When Elaine and I left Moncton years ago, there was all the normal hoopla. There were those saying their good bye’s who wished us well and others who were likely happy to see us go. It was hard to say good bye to the former but we were also happy to say so long...