An Invitation to Write!With the increased restrictions due to covid-19 we will be spending more time at home.For some of us this is okay – we enjoy solitude; we enjoy being at home.For others of us we...  Read More

They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of breadand the prayers.          Acts 2:42Apart from the Psalms, Acts has more verses with “pray” or some version of “...  Read More

“...whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”  Jesus (Matthew 6:6)I grew up seeing my parent...  Read More

When I arrived at the church the other day I found gifts on the front steps. Someone had left, on our front steps, bags of clothing, toys, artwork (I don't know what all is in those bags) to give to w...  Read More

Zooming In, Zooming OutIn these unprecedented and uncertain times many people are writing about their perspective or tjheir understanding or their derived meaning from the covid-19 global pandemic. It...  Read More

When we fall in love, or share in a deep friendship, what each values is just this uniqueness, this otherness that is both similar and complimentary yet distinct. The lover's "I love you because you a...  Read More

Advent does not lead to nervous tension stemming from expectation of something spectacular about to happen. On the contrary, it leads to a growing inner stillness and joy allowing me to realize that h...  Read More

Peace has come to mean the time when there aren't any wars or even any major wars. Beggars can't be choosers; we'd most of us settle for that. But in Hebrew peace, shalom, means fullness,  means havi...  Read More

HOPEOur mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of HOPE –not the prudent gates of Optimism, which are somewhat narrower,not the stalwart boring gates of Common Sense,nor the strident gates of self-...  Read More

An Article for the Riverview Reflector winter issueI’m sitting in our kitchen nook at home typing on my computer. We live 11 km south of Winnipeg on the 2nd floor of our straw-bale barn-looking house....  Read More

Thirty people were at our Grace Escape Retreat this past weekend. We enjoyed good fellowship and conversation even with the steady soft rain falling around us. We were thrilled that Irma & Cameron McK...  Read More

Here we are now in Ordinary Time – the season after Pentecost – and I’ve not written since Lent. It has been difficult for me to write beyond Lent when I am still personally in the space of asking, “H...  Read More