Today is Emma’s 22nd birthday. She’s having the best time in our recent cold snap and snow fall. I guess being born in winter and on the Canadian Prairies, predisposes you to like snow and...Read More
I’ve not posted in a long while, but Advent is always an inviting season that draws me to slow down, reflect and write. So I poked a couple of friends – Karen and Denice, to see if they...Read More
I’ve been reading The Sign of Jonas by Thomas Merton, a journal of his early years living at Gethsemene Abbey. Not something you’d think would be inspirational to prelude a birthday poem, ...Read More
He is Risen! So, live. Grasp every silver second and savour it. Then, run and tell someone, ‘Jesus is alive!’ Lily A blossom so purewith a voice so full of lifeit speaks, He’s Risen!...Read More
And we enter the darkest days of Lent. The days when we’re asked to do the same small thing that Jesus asked of the disciples in the garden, ‘watch and pray.’ And like the disciples ...Read More
I wonder sometimes, about parts of the story that aren’t told. As a writer I know the writer’s of the gospels had to choose what they wrote. They couldn’t write everything. John̵...Read More
It is my experience while observing Lent, that at a certain point it just feels long. The body says, like the unfocused, restless child it can sometimes be, “Are we done yet? Is it over? Can we ...Read More
Prayer is often so much about searching – at least for me it feels this way. There’s a sense that the answers to my questions are there, not hidden exactly, but waiting to be found, if I’...Read More
I love birds. I love them because they’re so with us – so present. There’s always a chickadee, seagull, crow, sparrow, junco around as you move from home to car, from car to store or...Read More
Time seems to move so swiftly for me at the beginning of the year. I can barely believe that February is almost finished. However, Lent, like some kind of time within time, moves more slowly for some ...Read More