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UC Chimes: New Year's Resolution

Happy New Year! Another brand new year, the year of 2013, will begin next Tuesday. That Tuesday will not be just an ordinary Tuesday; it will be a very special day, New Year's day.

Christmas brings stories of life from death

In one of history's dark hours, on a cold Christmas Eve during the Korean War, a young woman struggles along a village street, about deliver a child. "Help me! Please. My baby." No one pays any attention. A middle-aged couple walks by.

The greatest Christmas gift

Although I rarely comment on current events I cannot ignore the grief and confusion associated with Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. In reality, it is everyone's tragedy.

UC Chimes: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

Christmas day is around the corner. A week later, a new year will arrive. Time keeps on ticking. Day time is getting shorter and shorter. During a long night time, all kinds of thoughts and memories are bombarding our minds.

Pause for Reflection

A gifted speaker was asked to recall his most difficult speech assignment. "That's easy," he said. "It was an address I gave to the National Conference of Undertakers. The topic was, 'How to look sad at a ten thousand dollar funeral.

Yelling on the mountain

I recently read this Facebook message, posted by a family member: "Abby was very excited about her new Christmas piano music. She told me all about it on the way home....'Mom, I got the music for Come and Yell on a Mountain!'...

Pause for Reflection

You know you're in a big family when: One of your children looks wistfully at the newborn and asks you, "Can't you have another baby really soon? I hardly get to hold this one because everybody else is taking turns".

Watch where you're walking

Unlike today's maintained highways, the road to Bethlehem from The East probably was paved more with dung than asphalt. Assuming that's true, then watching where one walked was a strategic consideration.

UC Chimes

Someone told me that Saskatchewanians are very stubborn and independent, but when they know that they have to work together, they cooperate with one another very well.

UC Chimes

Many years ago, when I was in Wawa, Ontario, someone told me, "Wawa has four seasons; before winter, real winter, cold winter and after winter." It is real winter now.
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