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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Awakening to Advent

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When your mental judgmental grid and all its commentaries are placed aside, God finally has a chance to get through to you, because your p...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

The power of a river, of love

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The city has vanished today, it's snowing that hard. I know it's there on the other side of a wall of whiteness, but it's not ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Simple Suggestions #145 and #188 revisited... Observe Buy Nothing Day

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Here it comes again! The day after American Thanksgiving and the consumption of all that turkey has been designated an anti-consumptio...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Christ the Knave?

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The Knave of Hearts, he stole my heart and took it clean away.                   --English nursery rhyme, adapted. To be completely ho...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

A good walk is like a prayer

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Amazingly, this morning, our little puppy with the short haircut didn't hide himself in the blankets in his crate for a few extra ho...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Simple Suggestion # 220... Celebrate multiculturalism

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This morning as I listened to the radio, my heart cracked a little more, again. The radio host interviewed the mother of a young gentleman w...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

A simple prayer... in a song

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Here's one that we like to sing at our family sing songs, sung by the man who wrote it, Kris Kristofferson, a man who hasn't had the...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Simple Suggestion # 219... Let sleeping plants lie

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Every fall I see them, neighbours out hacking down their perennials before the snow flies, stuffing the dead leaves and stalks into garbag...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Remembering in 2014

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Remembrance Day is even more poignant and solemn this year, thanks to our trip to France and Belgium this summer. We spent July 3rd on Vim...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

God restores us

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Tonight is our annual Taizé Prayer for Peace. With Remembrance Day on Tuesday, it’s important to reflect on our world’s past conflicts, not...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

5 years already!

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Last week was my fifth anniversary at L'Arche Edmonton. I started October 29, 2009, working on a piecemeal basis to help my friend, Pa...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Simple Suggestion #218... Take a break from technology

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This morning Julia handed me her little piece of technology as if it was a gift. Surprised, I asked what she was doing. "I'm taki...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Celebration

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We've been doing a lot of celebrating lately... anniversaries, birthdays, and more birthdays. Today is the birthday of the man I love....
Friday, October 31, 2014

Hallowe'en, sigh...

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It's gotten a lot easier... but a bit sadder, too, now that my kids are older. No more costume chaos... and its resulting flurry of crea...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Simple Suggestion #217... Support

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or other charitable organizations that help small-scale farmers If you crunch the numbers, women like the one above (and men) feed 3 bill...