This is a reminder that what we do for each other is enough. There is much hope to be found in our serving with love.

Ever since the beginning of my memory, I have had a sense that there is with me a presence. Like Psalm 139, I feel known and somehow protected by the Spirit.

Renew in us the hope and strength to find the joy in the new days ahead. Inspire us also to find ways to bring that hope and joy to those around us.

Last week Ben, my 4-year old great-grandson, and I were up at the airport. He loves the planes! He became more and more excited as the propellers started to spin. As the plane…

We all have this love within but somewhere along life’s path, we learn to be cautious about demonstrating our love for others.

As we enter the new phase of the “Trusted Bubble” and re-attach to a treasured few, we pray to send out “The Dove” as Noah did to get the final word to emerge, rejoin, re-attach, re-gather, rejoice.

So, I’m wondering if there are those who would be willing to write a “Thought for the Day” for me to post. I’d like to make up a list of those who might choose to do:

June is National Indigenous History Month and should be a time to celebrate and honour the unique culture and spirit of our sisters and brothers of the First Nations.

Yesterday afternoon, we were entertained for about 45 minutes by a pod of Orca Whales. There were several young ones doing what resembled a water dance. I developed a strong appreciation for the relationships they had with each other.

“With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years a day”
2 Peter 3:8

Conscience — An inner feeling or voice viewed as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behaviour. Consequence — A result or effect of an action or condition.

Many of us share a strong urge to recapture our comfort zone of regular activities, social connections, and church and fellowship time together.

“There was a teacher in a village school in Scotland by the name of Joseph Craik. The other teachers at that school circled the inkblots on the student's papers in large red circles…

May you recognize in your life the presence, power, and light of your soul. May you realize that you are never alone, that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe.

All of these are reminders to me that there is a larger and more abiding framework to our world than our own moment-to-moment lives.

The psalmist not only describes his condition of needing his spiritual battery re-charged, in the verses that follow, he gives us the formula for getting re-charged.

As a whole, we humans don't handle times of enforced waiting with the patience of a heron.. Times of waiting should not be wasted merely surviving until tomorrow, but rather filled with living abundantly today.