New Love.
True Love.
It doesn't get better than that.
Family 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Postcards From Your Mother
So, I'm pretty transparent. I'm not much of a liar - you can tell what I'm thinking by the look on my face.
"Don't start playing poker any time soon", my boy tells me.
He's right.
Others of my children are not so kind. Well, kind yes, but not as intersted in giving advice. They do things like sending me links to websites I would enjoy.
Like this one: http://postcardsfromyomomma.com/ It has given me a new reason to get out of bed in the morning - try to get an email posted on this site.
I conjure up some pretty extreme emails to my children anyway, but given this new motivation, I'm sending some deuces, but can't take credit for this one....
"Don't start playing poker any time soon", my boy tells me.
He's right.
Others of my children are not so kind. Well, kind yes, but not as intersted in giving advice. They do things like sending me links to websites I would enjoy.
Like this one: http://postcardsfromyomomma.com/ It has given me a new reason to get out of bed in the morning - try to get an email posted on this site.
I conjure up some pretty extreme emails to my children anyway, but given this new motivation, I'm sending some deuces, but can't take credit for this one....
nasal irrigator
In other news, your father asked me this morning if he could borrow my
nasal irrigator. I got very excited, thinking he was being pro-active in
fighting the cold that’s got him sniffling non-stop already. Turns out he just
wanted to use the irrigator to inject jelly into the croissants he was baking. I
could write a fucking book.I’ve got to buckle down now and read this new
script.
XXOO
MA
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Preacher Idol Ruth Update.
Ruth came third.
Exactly where she'd hoped to be.
Top three and no need to take a seminary course.
We had cake at church to celebrate.
Exactly where she'd hoped to be.
Top three and no need to take a seminary course.
We had cake at church to celebrate.
Friday, March 07, 2008
Preacher Idol
Ruth Wilkinson - Preacher Idol Contestant
Ruth turns preaching on it's ear
by telling a story.
Watch, vote, and spread the word
for a fellow Resonate (Peterborough) attendee.
http://drewmarshall.ca/preacheridol/index.php
In real life, Ruth is the founder of the "Greenwood Tower Initiative", an advocacy group, making friends and pot luck suppers with the 100 or so folks who live in a residential hotel in Port Hope, ON.
Ruth turns preaching on it's ear
by telling a story.
Watch, vote, and spread the word
for a fellow Resonate (Peterborough) attendee.
http://drewmarshall.ca/preacheridol/index.php
In real life, Ruth is the founder of the "Greenwood Tower Initiative", an advocacy group, making friends and pot luck suppers with the 100 or so folks who live in a residential hotel in Port Hope, ON.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
From Dan's Blog
"The quest for meaning is one that preoccupies all Canadians — and indeed all human beings who have met their basic needs for food, shelter and security, and begin to move up the Maslowian hierarchy to seek post-material satisfactions.
As aging baby boomers watch their parents and even their friends die, and as they look beyond materialism, hedonism and work that gave shape to their middle years, they will begin to search broadly for sources of meaning to fit later in life in contemporary Canada.
They are unlikely to be satisfied by the traditional religions so many abandoned in their youth.
But as they scan their environment for examples of the good life, they might find inspiration in the children of immigrants who are materially successful but often still deeply engaged with a spiritual life that is social, syncretic, globally conscious, and threatened neither by the old nor by the new."
As aging baby boomers watch their parents and even their friends die, and as they look beyond materialism, hedonism and work that gave shape to their middle years, they will begin to search broadly for sources of meaning to fit later in life in contemporary Canada.
They are unlikely to be satisfied by the traditional religions so many abandoned in their youth.
But as they scan their environment for examples of the good life, they might find inspiration in the children of immigrants who are materially successful but often still deeply engaged with a spiritual life that is social, syncretic, globally conscious, and threatened neither by the old nor by the new."
Friday, November 02, 2007
I've Been Away....
Well, not so much away as unavailable. Within my own skull I mean. Just not the headspace to be able to put pen to paper. I have been at my wit's end for most of the summer and now long into the fall.
Way to much on my plate, way to many people with demands, way to little power and autonomy.
Not so different from the rest of the world in that I guess.
But I'm feeling better.
I am seeing the trees at the edge of the forest in definition now.
I am feeling freer to practice (and practise) the person I am becoming.
And, with the best news yet, Martyn Joseph will be in Grafton on February 6th. Change your life to be there too.
Way to much on my plate, way to many people with demands, way to little power and autonomy.
Not so different from the rest of the world in that I guess.
But I'm feeling better.
I am seeing the trees at the edge of the forest in definition now.
I am feeling freer to practice (and practise) the person I am becoming.
And, with the best news yet, Martyn Joseph will be in Grafton on February 6th. Change your life to be there too.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Some of us witnessed the passing of the torch this weekend: the much beloved Sylvia Tyson slipping away as a music icon and the birthing of the newest generation: Catherine MacLellan - daughter of the past pop era legend Gene MacLellan, singing on the same stage, sharing the same workshop, enjoying the comraderie of the song and lyric.Some of us were busy making lunch for those folks.
I thank Dan Sheffield for the photo.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Haiku - The Perfect Creative Outlet for the Busy and Impatient:
The Question
The God who is there
Will he show up tomorrow
When I need him most
Garden Produce
Flowers open and close
Like the sign in the window
Nectar sold daily
Avian Idol
Birds on their nests
Snuggling with their body heat
Next year's musicians
The God who is there
Will he show up tomorrow
When I need him most
Garden Produce
Flowers open and close
Like the sign in the window
Nectar sold daily
Avian Idol
Birds on their nests
Snuggling with their body heat
Next year's musicians
Sunday, August 12, 2007
I remember when.....
I remember in the late eighties when the punk thing was so new and scarey, and good christian folks were distancing themselves from the ungodly spiked haired safety pin wearing kids, I watched a group of them sitting together talking.
When one kid spoke, every head turned, every eye was on her/him. Then the next kid talked, and the same thing happened; everyone's attention was solely on them.
I was mesmerized - I realized that these kids had found themselves a family - a community in the true sense.
It's what the human heart craves - and we will look for it 'til we find it - regardless of the cost - and sometimes it costs a lot.
When one kid spoke, every head turned, every eye was on her/him. Then the next kid talked, and the same thing happened; everyone's attention was solely on them.
I was mesmerized - I realized that these kids had found themselves a family - a community in the true sense.
It's what the human heart craves - and we will look for it 'til we find it - regardless of the cost - and sometimes it costs a lot.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Amen and amen!
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
— James Dent
— James Dent
Thursday, June 07, 2007
As Stolen Directly from Dan Sheffield's Blog....
He's so old now, he won't even notice....
Happy Birthday by the way.
Scriptural holiness is the attitude embedded in your heart when you allow Christian scripture to shape every word, fill every thought, and guide every action.
that's a thot from the recent issue The Asbury Herald. J. E. Kalas, the president of Asbury Seminary added a few more thots in his editorial.
...scriptural holiness isn't manageable... holiness, like Aslan, the Christ symbol, cannot be domesticated. Just after we have found some new spiritual victory, we discover a whole new territory that is waiting to be taken for Christ. This isn't because the boundaries of sin have changed, but it is because we've become more sensitive to our reading of those boundaries. Once we were satisfied that our deeds were acceptable, then holiness asked us about our wayward tongues and our even more wayward thoughts. One day we thought we had at last gained humility, so we announced it -- and in that moment we lost it. Having won a battle with lust, we thought we had gotten purity of heart -- only to discover that self-righteousness is an even greater hazard to a pure heart.
and then there's the challenge to translate personal holiness into social holiness. Scriptural holiness doesn't allow us to be content with clean habits, clean speech and pure thought... holiness insists that we participate in social renewal. We can't be content as long as poverty, injustice, war and selfishness rule our society. We are driven into the public arena. Our neighbourhood begins to encircle the globe, and although our interests can't taken in everything, they're never allowed to be comfortable with what we can already manage. Scripture holiness isn't for spiritual sissies. It calls for heroic souls...
will scriptural holiness work in a culture as complicated and superficially sophisticated as ours? Not only will it work, I don't know of anything else that will. The ills of this age are too deep to be cured by religious or intellectual hocus pocus.
Happy Birthday by the way.
Scriptural holiness is the attitude embedded in your heart when you allow Christian scripture to shape every word, fill every thought, and guide every action.
that's a thot from the recent issue The Asbury Herald. J. E. Kalas, the president of Asbury Seminary added a few more thots in his editorial.
...scriptural holiness isn't manageable... holiness, like Aslan, the Christ symbol, cannot be domesticated. Just after we have found some new spiritual victory, we discover a whole new territory that is waiting to be taken for Christ. This isn't because the boundaries of sin have changed, but it is because we've become more sensitive to our reading of those boundaries. Once we were satisfied that our deeds were acceptable, then holiness asked us about our wayward tongues and our even more wayward thoughts. One day we thought we had at last gained humility, so we announced it -- and in that moment we lost it. Having won a battle with lust, we thought we had gotten purity of heart -- only to discover that self-righteousness is an even greater hazard to a pure heart.
and then there's the challenge to translate personal holiness into social holiness. Scriptural holiness doesn't allow us to be content with clean habits, clean speech and pure thought... holiness insists that we participate in social renewal. We can't be content as long as poverty, injustice, war and selfishness rule our society. We are driven into the public arena. Our neighbourhood begins to encircle the globe, and although our interests can't taken in everything, they're never allowed to be comfortable with what we can already manage. Scripture holiness isn't for spiritual sissies. It calls for heroic souls...
will scriptural holiness work in a culture as complicated and superficially sophisticated as ours? Not only will it work, I don't know of anything else that will. The ills of this age are too deep to be cured by religious or intellectual hocus pocus.
Friday, June 01, 2007
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