Each Sunday we gather at 10:30 am for a joyous worship experience with music, scripture, other inspired readings, a reflection, communion and prayers.
We all need to have companions on our journey of life … friends who walk with us and support and encourage us during the difficult times, and who equally celebrate with us the joyous moments too. It’s interesting too that we often have friends for certain periods of our lives. And, there are some who […]
This past Monday was International Women’s Day. So, I want to use this reflection to wish all women of St. Paul’s, daughters, granddaughters and great granddaughters, and all women and Happy Women’s Day. May who you are and the blessings you offer be recognized and honored as you faithfully live your lives and enter into […]
Aristotle said … “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Henri J.M. Nouwen wrote … “A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.” Barbara […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m often receiving spam messages in my emails that I am grateful are filtered and separated out. If they weren’t, my in box would be cluttered with unwanted messages that are often advertising of some sort or other or a scam of some kind. They truly are junk mail […]
This Sunday is Valentine’s Day. Although not a feast day or festival in the church calendar, it is a day to reflect on the gift of love that we receive from God and from others in our lives. As well it is an opportunity to reflect on how we are called to share genuine love […]
Sometimes the sun is so blinding that we can’t see. For the health of our eyes, it’s important to shield them from the harmful rays that can lead to compromised vision down the road. I keep a pair of prescription sunglasses in each of our cars and in the house to use when I’m on […]
Today is Bell “Let’s Talk” day, an campaign to intentionally recognize and pay attention to the issues of mental health that people deal with. This is often so much of a reality in their everyday life. And add into that the past year of Covid 19, mental health issues have increased dramatically. We need to […]
Yesterday I, like I suspect many of you, watched a momentous time in history with the inauguration of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President of the USA. As I watched, for me personally there was a converging of politics and spirituality that was undeniably the gospel being proclaimed and prophetic voices […]
In Ecclesiastes we read, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven… a time to keep silence and a time to speak.” (Ecc 3:7). Paul wrote to the Ephesians, “speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ […]
I don’t know for sure about you, but there are days when I’m less able to faithfully persevere the longer this pandemic goes on. And add into that the reality of increasing number of positive test results and the uncertainty of how long this will all go on for. Some days my ability to persevere […]