Friends and I were chatting over dinner in a restaurant. A man at the next table told his cell-phone caller to hold on. Then he stepped outside to talk.
When he returned, I said, "That was very thoughtful."
"I had no choice," he nodded and said to me. "You were making too much noise."
When we fan into flame what God has entrusted to us, we will find greater ability to entrust what we have to Him.
One day after a nasty streak of bad weather, I asked my teenage son to take our dog for a long walk after school.
When I came home from work, I found my son stretched out on the recliner, watching television.
He had leash in hand while the dog trotted happily away on the treadmill.
"Waiting is good. It means you're not going to die. The person you need to feel sorry for is the one who gets rushed into the ER and treated first."
- Don Lundy, paramedic
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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