It may be early for New Year’s resolutions, I but think I may have just chosen one for myself: to savour more. This morning, in the midst of communion at church, I felt an inner nudge to take a moment to notice and savour what I was participating in. I […]
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge – Bertrand Russell The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination – Carl Rogers Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not […]
Movies, and perhaps childrens’ movies in particular, often seem to have evil corporations or evil CEOs as the villain these days. Makes sense. It seems reasonable to suggest that huge corporations are among the greatest forces of evil and the biggest threat to all that is human. You won’t get […]
What happens when more and more people start disconnecting from church as well as other forms of clubs and civic groups that provided a lot of the cohesion in past generations? It seems quite likely that when these folks retire and a few of their friends leave or die, the […]
It seems to me that a lot of human motivations are based on fear, self-centredness or both. I wonder if the best motivation for how we choose to live is to seek to live beautifully. Here is a quick look at some of the common options: 1. Earning someone’s approval […]
I God of sowing and reaping You created a universe of order and chaos with terrible beauty And it is very good All things are working together But it’s a wild mess Death and life entwined Your blessings raining on the just and the unjust We reap the fruit of […]
If the first word (displacement) represents the cause of the suffering and the second word (accompaniment) represents the path of those, Colombian or ex-pats, who seek to care and help, the third word represents the hope in the heart of the victims, and that word is resilience. I will tell […]
If displacement is the word we kept hearing when looking at the struggles of the people, accompaniment is the word that marked the path of those seeking to help. Having been separated from so many of their resources, displaced people need others to walk alongside them, assisting them in restoring […]
[I’ve recently returned from a two week learning tour in Colombia. For most of the group this trip was a part of St. Stephen’s University’s program on International Studies. For me it was to better understand my duties as part of the board for MCC Canada – the relief, peace […]
We seem to forget this choosing as we let ourselves be lulled into drifting along. More and more, faster and faster, we give away our humanity and our place in the natural world. We forget that we are inspired bodies, meant to dig and gather to satisfy our hunger, meant […]