Each Sunday we gather at 10:30 am for a joyous worship experience with music, scripture, other inspired readings, a reflection, communion and prayers.
There was a joke going around that said something like … I’m staying up until midnight not to see in the new year in but to make sure 2020 is finished and done with!! Another one is that after midnight tonight we’ll be able to say “hindsight is 2020!!” This has been quite a year, […]
Discombobulated … a good word for what I’ve felt and experienced in these days of changing plans especially for our worship services over Christmas. First there was the news reported that the province would be shut down as of Christmas Eve and we made appropriate arrangements for St. Paul’s. On Monday, when the announcement was […]
Each year there is conversation about how to greet each other during the Christmas season. For many there is a principle at play and they claim their right to wish other’s a “Merry Christmas”. For some, they use the greeting “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings”. At times, it strikes me that the essence of the […]
“The Grinch” is an entertaining Christmas movie that is often enjoyed by adults as much as by children. Dr. Seuss tells a story that reaches to the heart of what Christmas is about, especially when Grinch tries to silence the bells and steal all the presents. In Whoville the Whos are full of excitement about […]
Earlier in the week, this image came up from one of my Facebook friends. I found it striking and very poignant as I looked at the details and took in the clear message of the intersection of the Incarnation with the realities of our time. On the one hand it’s a disturbing image; on the other […]
We as human beings live with a spirit of anticipation in our everyday lives and in our spiritual lives of faith too. As followers of Jesus, we experience anticipation of what we are called to believe and how we are called to live our lives faithfully in our discipleship and ministries. That anticipation inspires a […]
This image speaks to me in an experience we had last week with one of our cars. We were in the Walmart parking lot getting ready to open the car door when a woman was flagging us down asking if we knew we had a flat tire. We didn’t know, but when we got out […]
* with apologies for the error in the year of the last election … it was 2016 and not 2018 * I decided to write this reflection before the election in the United States so as to hopefully avoid a rant depending on the outcome. And in so doing, I pray that it is more […]
For a while now my computer has not been working optimally. In particular it was very slow in responding to requests and in opening up the various files I wanted to work on. This was frustrating as there were things I wanted to accomplish and messages that needed my attention. But the computer wouldn’t cooperate!! […]
So, where does God actually live? We might think that to be a question our children might ask. But, without voicing it for fear of seeming juvenile, I wonder how many of us as adults might have a similar question or pondering. Historically, we might have been taught that God was in heaven as we […]