Vocation

We can have it all and not feel happy or that our purpose in life has been achieved. Success is only for a moment - a whisp of time, fleeting and passing.

Congregation at Kingsway Baptist Church, Etobicoke, ON

For roughly two two years (February 2014 - April 2016) I had the privilege of preaching on a part-time basis (because I'm really retired, you see), at Kingsway Baptist Church in Toronto, Ontario.

Scotch thistles

From the Bible's Genesis account we discover not only God's creation but also how God has planned for our lives to be lived, so that we flourish as human beings.

ancient text

When, in Isaiah 6, in ancient Israel in that dramatic year that King Uzziah died, the prophet was given to see the awe-full revelation of a greater King, Isaiah thought he was a dead man.

Iona view and bench

I rebuke myself, well sometimes, at the many times in which I am not mostly nor fully present. The picture here shows Jane looking out to the isle of Mull from Holy Island, Iona, in Scotland.

bell at Iona Abbey, Scotland
Leonard Cohen exhorts us to, 'Ring the bells that still can ring.'
 
I resonate with perfectionists.
 
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