Our guest post today is by Tyler Horton, who previously wrote "Vowels or Vehicles". He continues to share with us his journey of balancing family life and school. He is in the first year of the MA (NT Studies) program. Tyler lives in rural New Brunswick, just outside of Fredericton, where he has been an Assistant Pastor for 10 years.
I remember looking up and
realising that the festive presence of our poinsettia at one end of the family
piano was being intruded upon by a set of three small pumpkins from Halloween that
were nestled awkwardly at the other. The
date was December 21st. As a
widowed father of three kids, seven and under, if I don’t do it, it doesn’t get