We can experience the “new delight” of beauty, surprise, and insight even when we are re-routed, even when the road we want to travel is closed, even when life both inside and out becomes puzzling.

I have often said that change is inevitable, and this pandemic has been a totally unexpected adjustment for us all. But we survive and we continue on filled with hope and Love.

All life on Earth is connected to the ocean and its inhabitants.

1. LISTEN. Listen to what Indigenous peoples are saying. Put down your defences, listen to their stories, their calls to action and don’t believe that you know what is best. You will never face their realities or fully understand. Listen.

We must not forget that when one person suffers, we all suffer and when the Nations suffer, this whole country suffers.

Sometimes all we can do is cry with those who are suffering. Then after the tears have dried, we can take action. Keep safe, Keep connected.

O Great Spirit of our Ancestors, I raise my pipe to you. To your messengers the four winds, and to Mother Earth who provides for your children.

May the mind of God, ever wiser than our minds, search us deeply and open us to the truths that make for our healing.

God remains a mystery, our faith has not waivered, and appreciation and love for our sisters and brothers in Christ has magnified.

Creator has given us the ultimate gift, so why not enjoy it by finding the positive in whatever situation we encounter?

Our ability to feel gratitude has a fundamental effect on our approach to life. Practise gratitude and you automatically promote humility. Why is that so?

This Sunday is Pentecost, and we will be celebrating the Sacrament of Communion. Please have your bread and juice/wine ready for the service.

I wonder if this common experience will open our hearts to be more compassionate and more loving toward each other. I have faith that we will all feel closer and be full of loving-kindness.

In your heart no malice can be found. Your heart knows only Love, Love without limitations, without reservation, without condition.

I wonder, how much longer it will take for all of society to be accepting of diversities and treat others in a non-judgemental manner?

Through education and acceptance of global diversities, we are able to be open to demonstrate love to all of humankind.

I believe that there is a natural balance in life. We may have negative experiences, but we also have positive experiences.

Where there is hopelessness, reveal deep wells of compassion. Where there is joy, let your kindly protection be known.

With them in our life, we have been truly blessed and we give thanks. In the name of the nurturing Love of the Spirit, we pray.

Living in poverty is not about comparing oneself with all the material possessions others have, it has to do with basic needs.