I hope that aside from the inconvenience of losing power, everyone managed okay in the storm last week. We didn’t even lose power at our place.
Every week, I say it’s a busy week! 😉 There was Food Bank yesterday morning, then I met with the Property Committee in the afternoon and then the Official Board met last night.
Worship this week is mainly what worship was going to be last week! Although I am rewriting my sermon a bit. Partly in light of the protest/counter protest in Halifax that Cathy McLeod and I took part in. We met up with a group of clergy and lay people at St. Matthew’s and walked over together. For the most part it was a peaceful, if loud protest/counter protest.
As a minister of an Affirming congregation, I thought it was important to be present in order to demonstrate publicly that there there is support for human rights that are guaranteed in our Charter and that despite some religious groups wanting to define who is worthy of God’s love, other’s believe in a God who’s love is so vast and so wide and created us in so many ways, that it is beyond our imagining.
It’s also a sad commentary that there are a number of tents set up in the Grand Parade. Is this not a justice issue too? Of course it is. Both are worth protesting. I’m feeling overwhelmed this evening.
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