by peter.ramsay | Dec 13, 2006 | Personal Stories
Ron Mills and his wife Ruth live in Gander, Newfoundland. Everyone going to Heaven has an outstanding day in their life – a day when they started for Heaven. No one has ‘always’ been on the road to Heaven and no one has gradually become fit for heaven. God’s salvation...
by peter.ramsay | Dec 4, 2006 | Life Lessons
2006 will probably go down as the big year for mea culpas. Mea Culpa is the Latin for: a personal acknowledgment of failure or fault. Inserting the Latin word ‘maxima’ changes it to a ‘big’ failure. November was the month a stand-up comic actor committed a potentially...
by peter.ramsay | Nov 14, 2006 | Life Lessons
You’re not safe until you’re inside. It’s comforting to make it to the doorstep but until you’re inside you can’t relax. After living many years in Alberta, Canada, Enard Petipas decided to return to his roots in Newfoundland. He moved to Whitbourne, an eastern town...
by peter.ramsay | Nov 4, 2006 | Personal Stories
When I think about my childhood, I remember quite vividly having to compete against the “brown bottle.” Both my Mom and Dad were drinkers. There was always a party going on somewhere. In our small town of 800 people, it seemed as if drinking was all there...
by peter.ramsay | Nov 2, 2006 | Life Lessons
It’s an old cemetery off the beaten track. Maybe it was a busy thruway for horse drawn buggies of the past – but today it’s a quiet country road near Dunkerton, Iowa. The cemetery was quiet and old but not quite abandoned. Some headstones were broken, others were moss...
