Hope Centre Brampton

In my relationships with people over the years, many share that they have no peace.  Recently a gentleman called me and wanted to talk. ...

Turning Over A New Leaf ‘Turning over a new leaf’ is a delightful English idiom. It initially meant “to flip to a fresh, unwritten page,...

Sound old fashioned?  ‘Mom as homemaker’ often has negative associations, even prompting derogatory memes like ‘barefoot, pregnant and in...

Facing loss. Sometimes there are no words to describe it. It can have the same paralysing effect as a sudden  thunderbolt. It can leave...

An image that often comes to mind of being not content is a fish opening and closing its mouth. If you’ve been to the Ripley’s Aquarium...

Where were you on that day of the solar eclipse on April 8?  The wonder and awe inspired hundreds of thousands to go to areas where they...

Peace is more than just the absence of war; more than the absence of conflict and strife.  It also includes the presence of wholeness,...

At times, a package may arrive at your doorstop. On it are words written in bold: Fragile. Handle With Care!  This also applies to...

He Will Direct Your Paths We enter into a new year, 2024.  Our cheer masks our hidden fear.  There are the unknowns of tomorrow. The path...

Set Free from Slavery We’ve all heard stories of slavery. We’ve learned about the harsh realities of slavery in history: exploitation,...

Our world is on fire with the flames of war. Most notable are the wars between Russia and Ukraine, and more recently in the Middle East...

Anxiety fills the air. Are you feeling that? A feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty, waiting from something about to happen, but we...

Public school is not your only choice. Hope Academy is a Christian mission school (JK -9) registered with the Ontario government. It...

According to medical news today, an addiction ‘is an inability to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior even though it may...

The last week of school, as I remember, had a lot of drama: games, parties, thank-yous, and also clean-up. And then suddenly, we were at...

I love my children. I’m sure you do as well. In our home, we had the habit of taking out the trash to bring to the garbage bin, and put...

We have three sons and two daughters. In one of the songs we taught our children, there is the phrase, “stalwart sons and daughters...

You might ask, ‘what about girls? Why do you single out boys only?’ I hope to focus on training girls in my next article. There is the...

We love our freedom. But that begs the question, ‘Freedom to do what?’ One dictionary defines freedom in a simple way, “the power or...

What a fast-paced society we live in. To use an English idiom, ‘It’s a rat-race!’ A ‘rat-race’ is “a way of life in which people are...