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Sunny Side Up - Welcome to my newest granddaughter

Sunny Side Up - Welcome to my newest granddaughter

My honorary granddaughter, the first Canadian in her family, didn’t thank me for the gift of a tiny Canadian flag and lapel pin. She didn’t even look at me. In fact, she slept through the entire visit. I understood.
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Sunny Side Up - Happy Birthday Mom... from this side of heaven

Sunny Side Up - Happy Birthday Mom... from this side of heaven

My mother would have been 96 on the day I’m writing this column. She died four months ago, at 95.
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Sunny Side Up - Why bother going to church?

Sunny Side Up - Why bother going to church?

Some Sundays, I confess, I wonder why I bother attending church. Not because I don’t love God, like the people, or appreciate the pastor. Not even because it’s inconvenient to do so. I’ve spent most Sunday mornings of my life in a church pew.
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Sunny Side Up - Come to the stable - Messiah waits

Sunny Side Up - Come to the stable - Messiah waits

Years ago, as a Christmas gift to myself, I memorized the Nativity account in Luke 2. I saw images I hadn’t seen since a child. My ears tuned to hear ecstatic praise in the night sky.
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Sunny Side Up - Farewell to an iconic pastor

Sunny Side Up - Farewell to an iconic pastor

“Billy Graham is more alive than he’s ever been,” my daughter Amanda texted early on February 21st. And I knew: Billy would celebrate his 100th birthday in heaven. In the evangelical world, Billy had no equal.
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Sunny Side Up - No dog for us — for now

Sunny Side Up - No dog for us — for now

“I’m getting a dog,” I told the Preacher, after a stressful day at work. “I want a pet that will walk with me. And,” I sniffed in a self-pitying sort of way, “one who’s crazy about me.” His Grace (the cat) favours the Preacher.
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Sunny Side Up - God brings good surprises on the other side of pain

Sunny Side Up - God brings good surprises on the other side of pain

When necessity forced me from the world of freelance writing and speaking into using those skills to earn a regular paycheque, I never imagined the blessing of a desk of my own in a quiet office.
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Sunny Side Up - Growing more often means starting with less

Sunny Side Up - Growing more often means starting with less

I peered down at the pair scrabbling about on their knees in our raspberry patch, hacking at the stalks. Without mercy, or so it seemed.
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Sunny Side Up - Because Jesus lives…the song goes on

Sunny Side Up - Because Jesus lives…the song goes on

The Preacher brought home a Joey and Rory DVD the other day. A collection of music, but a love story, really. October, 2015. The windows of the barn-turned-concert hall glow.
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Sunny Side Up - How to handle what spooks you

Sunny Side Up - How to handle what spooks you

“Nanas never get scared, right?” one of the Beans asked a while back. With Halloween lurking, our previously safe-looking neighbourhood had morphed into one haunted by witches and goblins, ghosts and skeletons.
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