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Advent 2023 – a journal
December 1 ( written on December 2) … I pulled my Advent calendar out of storage. It should have been up days ago in anticipation…but, well. We had to adjust the hanging because the furniture ... Read More
Happy Noises
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
Cinquain Refrains
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
Easter Joy
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
Creating in Lent 7
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
Creating in Lent 6
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
Creating in Lent 5
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
Creating in Lent 4
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