I am having a bit of an existential crisis these days. Let me explain. Each Sunday morning, I receive an email with an affirmation for the week. Affirmations are phrases or sentences of positive thoughts that people say to themselves to keep them focused on the good...

  We are travelling deeper into Lent. We talk about the growing darkness as we inch closer to Good Friday, before bursting into the light of Easter. I always find an irony in our talk of growing darkness during Lent. I do so because the light is actually growing...

 My mother always told me there was a road paved with good intentions. Luckily, it seems that road is quite long. Sometimes we have expectations of ourselves, and others, that just don’t get met. We have every intention of meeting them, and it doesn’t happen. How do...