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Thursday, December 29, 2016

A bridge to a New Year

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Our family took a quick trip to Lethbridge this week to see Lee's parents. One afternoon, we drove to Indian Battle Park at the bottom o...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Merry Christmas!

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2016 has been the kind of year that makes it a bit harder to really celebrate, to really feel those carols that sing of hope and joy and the...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Have a Merry (and Waste-Less) Christmas

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We've almost reached Christmas, a time to celebrate the birth of a tiny child who came to teach us how to really love one another, the...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Advent Love

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At the Heart of the Universe by Mary Southard, csj from the 2017 Ministry of the Arts Calendar, which can be found by clicking here Th...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Monica's Epiphany

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I post this story every year, because I think its protagonist makes some important realizations about better ways to celebrate Christmas. Ge...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Advent Joy

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The third Sunday of Advent's readings lay it out clearly: Imagine! The wilderness and dry land are glad. The desert rejoices and ...
Friday, December 9, 2016

A Christmas memory

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When I was nine, my family moved from a small town in Saskatchewan to a big city in Alberta. It was pretty overwhelming for a country bumpki...
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Sunday, December 4, 2016

Re-Moodling: Simple Christmas Idea #9... Attend an Advent prayer

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For the past five years, a group of churches in my neighbourhood has welcomed Christians of all denominations to pray in their worship spac...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

As I Am #7 -- Beyond the Wall

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Just in time for today's International Day of Persons with Disabilities comes a new episode in the #AsIAm film series developed by L...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Are you waste wise?

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What do you do with empty pizza boxes? Shredded paper? Old VHS video tapes? Left over school supplies? The ugly, non-working lamp that Aunt ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Simple Suggestion #260... Have a chat with nature

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Walking with Shadow-pup is always an adventure. These days, when it's chilly in the mornings, it usually takes a bit of wildlife to get ...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Advent Hope

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There's something about the little clip below that brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it. The music, the colours, the joy of the...
Friday, November 25, 2016

A Black Friday prayer

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How much did we pay to see a new day? It's a gift. A breath of air? Free. But we often don't see that it's a gift. A lif...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Celebrate "Buy Nothing Day" with a little ditty

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Most people know by now that the Friday after American Thanksgiving (November 25th this year) is the consumer craze known as Black Friday, t...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Simple Suggestion #259... Stick with soap bars

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There's good old-fashioned bar soap, made from coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil, shea butter, lye, water, and maybe a bit of essential...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

The wisdom of non-discrimination on a Sunday

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Lately I've been thinking a lot about human beings and our left-or-right, black-and-white ways of thinking. We like to divide things in...
Friday, November 18, 2016

We're never too old to learn

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I love this story.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Celebrating "stay-home-mom-ness"

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A screensaver someone made on my computer one day... It makes me a little crazy how stay-home-moms are belittled or ignored by society s...
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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Let's pray for peace

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Every week in Taizé, the brothers of the community begin with a prayer for peace on Sunday evening. For the half hour before supper, pilgr...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

#As I am #6... If I Were a Color

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When you have a disability, people with small hearts can be cruel. That's why it's wonderful when people with disabilities are cared...