Apples, cherries, plums, peaches, pears and grapes. Orchard country; beautiful Niagara on the Lake, Ontario. This is where my twin brother and I were born in 1948. Our family also included two older brothers.
I grew up in Winnipeg, and when my parents separated, as far as I knew, my life as a Christian was over. I blamed the church for not being there for me when my parents split up. I didn’t know how to deal with what life threw at me so I ran.
Life was good until I was nine. The day my father had a complete breakdown is etched in my memory forever. He would spend the next 26 years of his life, in and out of hospitals.