My challenge this Lent is to think about Jesus’s mother and how she coped through this most bewildering time. According to what is known, we believe she was now about 48 years old  and a widow. She had other children, but did not have much family support according to what Mark wrote in his Gospel Chapter 3: 21. The family in Nazareth believed Jesus was insane. So Mary’s real “family” included His disciples and the group of women followers who

This morning, during the quiet time I try to have each day, a special memory came to me. This is a time when I take a lectionary reading and have a devotional interpretation of it. Then I pray for those who come to mind. I ask God to protect them. I had not thought of Colin for years. It goes back to 1988 when I was a single mom and lived in an apartment in Scarborough with my daughter, Jennie.

“See the light in others and treat them as if that is all you see.”  (Wayne Dyer) The above quote is a great one, but hard to accomplish! We all know people we admire who are full of light which radiates into our world. Their charismatic attitude cannot help but draw us to them. It helps our desire to be like them and pass along their motivation. But in my case, at least, my good intentions are there, but are