Category: Stories
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~ Can’t We Have Some Fun?
Read More: ~ Can’t We Have Some Fun?t’s just a sad state of affairs in Canada these days. We are in the midst of a recession, and there is so much division in many churches that some people want to exit to form even better churches. This must be done with seriousness.
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~ About Cats and Dogs
Read More: ~ About Cats and DogsAlmost every Canadian family has a dog or a cat. A quarter of supermarkets is used to display food for those pets. There is a very wide choice of all kinds of brands, because like humans, pets are very picky.
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~ Have Mercy on Us
Read More: ~ Have Mercy on UsSometimes a sudden emotion vibrates inside you. At the back of the garden, you hear a bird singing. A grandchild examines your face with pure, serious eyes. An organ in a cathedral hums under the vaults, along high steep walls
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~ Reflections of a Grocer
Read More: ~ Reflections of a GrocerShe is small and sturdy. He tall and lean. You can tell immediately from him that they are over-65s. They have shopped here for years. He pushes the shopping cart. She hops industriously from the soap powder to the coffee to the biscuits. I am busy filling the bread rack when they pass me
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~ From Generation to Generation
Read More: ~ From Generation to GenerationThe year of our Lord, 1478. The hubbub retreated within the city walls. People grumbled. The body hanging from the gallows had gone limp all too soon.
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~ The Little Elephant
Read More: ~ The Little ElephantOn the edge of our bathtub is a little green elephant. It has stood there since the children were small. My wife keeps it there to hide the soap behind it. It looks so funny to see soap just lying on the edge of the bath.
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~ Bertus
Read More: ~ BertusBertus, our youngest son, was and is our worry child. However, he was never sickly, and by no means dumb. Just terribly mischievous. This child was different from our Wim. You could call Bertus a maverick.
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~ Klaas Pot
Read More: ~ Klaas PotMy wife and I come to Canada every other year to visit our children. Thus, we have gained many friends in Canada as well. Mostly older people who belong to the same church as our children’s families. The only exception is Klaas Pot.
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~ A Thorn in the Flesh
Read More: ~ A Thorn in the FleshEelke Van Doorn has been walking since 1985 in a pair of Brazilian shoes he bought in a Canadian shoe shop while visiting his children
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~ Little Brother from Scheveningen
Read More: ~ Little Brother from ScheveningenMy grandson who is studying to be a pastor in Grand Rapids knocked on my door. He is a somewhat shy little man and it took him about an hour to come up with the purpose of his visit