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All of one, all of a piece
Different, and somehow one in same
Another day, ev'ning to follow
Another day, for good or ill.
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“It’s such a gift for someone to tell you the truth, and it’s such a gift for someone to create art with the mess and the chaos and the despair of life, to have turned it into a song, a poem, a nov
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The Psalmist (103: 15-18) speaks of the brevity of life but also of the promise of God's covenant love and mercy - a prompt to those who wisely determine to trust and obey the Lord.
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St. John's Prologue to his Gospel record is the depiction of new creation that not only harkens back to the original Creation but also shows God's new creating work - once again through Jesus.
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Life's opportunities and resources can be squandered.
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I start with the assumption that there is a God. I don’t have enough faith to think otherwise.
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I created this video to illustrate a poem (sort of) that I wrote recently (March 2017).
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A new year lies at our feet. And what will it bring?
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The moments, days and years go by quickly. - All too quickly it often seems.
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Sometimes we seem to have our lives all together, just the way we like them, just the way we planned and worked hard to achieve. Some folk never manage to pull that off, but some of us do.
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Excerpts from John 10 - Jesus, the Good Shepherd.
"I am come that you might have Life, and have it more abundantly."
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"All we can give back and all God wants from any of us," writes Richard Rohr in his book, Falling Upwards: A Spirituality for the Two Halfs of Life, "is to humbly and proudly return the pr
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I once heard well-known Christian speaker and writer Tony Compolo encourage a room frull of Christians to live life to the full.
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Walking on water in liquid time
ankles, toes, shanks immersed
but not quite sinking, yet:
Can we learn to walk on water?
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There are lots of things that can contribute to making a bad day. I am beginning to be really frustrated by the level of congestion found in driving in Toronto.
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Old things, wonderful things, used things - wonderfully used up things . . .
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I reflect on my neediness, struggles, fears and loves in relationships. I learn that I can receive from someone’s going as well as from their being present, that my nostalgia for the past and my f
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Sometimes you feel that whatever you do, you just cannot win.
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