My mother will attest to the fact that when I was a child, I hated that we often had a large vegetable garden. Not just the weeding, and the picking, but the thinning of carrots… and then we couldn’t just throw the thinned carrots away, we had to wash and eat them! Imagine, how manyContinue reading “Unrevealed”
Category Archives: Sunday Reflections
The Biggest Question
Read Luke 10: 25-37 I belong to a Buy Nothing group on Facebook, my area is Eastern Passage, Shearwater and Cole Harbour and I can’t belong to a group that exists outside of my own neighbourhood. From the website: The Buy Nothing Project was founded in 2013 with the mission to build community by connectingContinue reading “The Biggest Question”
Don’t Throw Hope Off the Cliff
Last week, if you were here, you heard Jesus in his hometown of Nazareth, reading from the scroll of Isaiah these words: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, toContinue reading “Don’t Throw Hope Off the Cliff”
Our Purpose Remains the Same
No matter the circumstances, our purpose remains the same: Love God and Love Neighbour.
When You Change the Way You Look at Things… The Things You Look at, Change…
These ‘jars’ were created by two groups of people, so thankful for creativity in the congregation.
The Season of Christmas
You Are a Blessing All through the weeks of Advent, we have been using quilt blocks as a way to look at the readings. We had to cancel our Christmas Eve service due to bad weather, so today, Rev. Catherine adapted what had been planned for Christmas Eve and added Epiphany The first one isContinue reading “The Season of Christmas”
Hope Is Worth the Risk
What are you willing to risk hoping for this Christmas?
Are You Ready?
A childhood friends wants to see John again.
Living in the Light
One summer, about 35 years ago, a twelve-year-old boy from Northern Ireland stayed with my family and I. He was among about 40 children ages 10-12 who came to Nova Scotia that year. These were children from a boys and girls club in Belfast, a town noted for its religious intolerance, violence and terrorism. TheseContinue reading “Living in the Light”
A Little Meal.. a Little Oil…
450 grams of dry rice or some other grain. 50 grams of beans/lentils of some sort. 50 grams of oil. 5 grams of iodized salt. That is a day’s worth of emergency food aid. And this is what it looks like as one of three meals a day. As most of you know, I wasContinue reading “A Little Meal.. a Little Oil…”
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