Each Sunday we gather at 10:30 am for a joyous worship experience with music, scripture, other inspired readings, a reflection, communion and prayers.
I remember the first abbreviated message I received in a conversation I was in … “LOL”. I have to admit that at that time I didn’t know what it meant. And furthermore, I concluded the person was saying “Lots of Luck” because of what we were talking about. I know of someone else who thought […]
The scripture passage that comes to mind for me today and throughout this week is, “Jesus wept”. There is no doubt that Jesus is weeping and grieving and lamenting as the graves of the 215 children were discovered at the Kamloops Residential School. It is such a travesty that has and continues to profoundly affect not […]
There are many experiences in world history that we will never forget and that we should never forget either. The World Wars; the assassinations of Martin Luther King and President Kennedy; September 11th to name a few. And now we add to that the murder of George Floyd, the anniversary marked this past week. Our […]
Max Lucado said, “Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.” That’s a message about prayer that we need to hear and internalize especially when we feel we […]
The gospel message is really that simple … it can be summed up on one word … LOVE!! As human beings, throughout the ages of time, we have tried to comprehend exactly what the good news God has for us in Jesus. And in a nut shell, from Jesus himself and from the writings of […]
I was on a zoom meeting with clergy on Tuesday dealing with mental health and coping with these pandemic days. It was facilitated by Dr. Wanda Malcolm who provided us with thoughts and questions for reflection. She began with the statement “we’re all in the same storm”. However, she went on to recognize that “we’re […]
I wonder, how many of us really enjoy a cliff hanger when we’re reading a book or watching a television program. And invariably many of the shows we watch end their series run with a cliff hanger that we then have to wait months until the outcome is revealed. Isn’t that what keeps us going […]
As I sit at our dining room table, looking out the window, it’s Wednesday. And outside the snow has been falling covering the buds on the trees and flowers beginning to come up in the garden. It’s a good day to be inside. And a bit strange too to have temperatures at the freezing point […]
For many people, a quality they strive to maintain is being stoic no matter what they may be experiencing or what they may be really feeling deep inside. Prince Philip is described as being stoic throughout his life. And in many ways, the whole Royal family is regarded as stoic no matter what, even in […]
Today is a day when people often play pranks and jokes, at least until noon. I remember my favorite April Fools joke was the year we were taking the children to Disney in Florida; it was also the time of SARS. I woke them up on April 1, a day or two before we were […]