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A model for the church

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

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My grandsons watch a show that is making me think about the church and how we are called to work …

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Giving love back

21 Monday Nov 2016

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I wrote this a few years ago and re-read it today. As we move into the season of Advent and recall all that Jesus came to give because God never gives up on us, this helps us to understand the magnitude of what God has done for us, andhow much God loves us.

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The past few days I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the energy we put into relationships, with our family, friends, and the pets in our lives.  On Grimm’s Furry Tail, http://grimmsfurrytail.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/the-furry-tail/ I read the story of how Grimm’s owners were wanting to put him to sleep for having an intestinal infection that would take a long time to treat, and how he was rescued and brought into a loving home simply because of his happy never still tail.  In that home he has repaid the love given to him in multiple ways.

basking in the sun, and lying “sticky side up”

That story reminded me of one of the most amazing cats that I have ever had the opportunity to share a home with.  Thanks to my daughter, Tigger came to live with us one cold winter.  She was smuggling hot soup and hot water out to…

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Advent preparations

14 Monday Nov 2016

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There is so much happening in the congregation where I am working as interim moderator.  What an exciting place.  Whomever …

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Remembrance Day

11 Friday Nov 2016

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In anticipation of Remembrance Day tomorrow, I am reposting this blog with my heartfelt thanks for all those who served for the cause of peace and justice. God bless you all.

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Tomorrow marks a day of Remembrance.  In worship services in churches and at cenotaphs we will gather to remember those who have fought for and won the freedoms that we enjoy and all too often take for granted.  Those who have fought have done so at a great personal cost, and all have returned from war forever altered in body, mind, or spirit.

On this day I think of those who have given so much for the freedom and the rights of others.  Those who worked in underground organizations, those who fought on the front lines, those who endured destruction, devastation and horror all around them.  We can never know what this has cost them.

On Remembrance Day I often think of Don.  Don was a WW II veteran, who was stationed mainly in Belgium.  Whenever he spoke of the war years he told stories about the wonderful…

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