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A Reflection of Character
This week I have been enthralled by a video someone sent me. I just checked…it’s gone viral. Maybe you’ve seen it. The video is of identical quadruplets hugging one another. Not just once, or ...
National Aboriginal Day: The road to reconciliation
Where to start? I feel most unqualified to introduce National Aboriginal Day but perhaps that is the place from which many of us begin ...Where to start? I feel most unqualified to introduce National Aboriginal Day but perhaps that is the place from which many of us begin when we think about our First Nations neighbours. Yet even ...
James: In Faith
Someone once told me that I had the gift of faith. Someone once told me that my faith was weakness, and that I believed ...Someone once told me that I had the gift of faith. Someone once told me that my faith was weakness, and that I believed blindly like a child. I have wrestled with these contradictory ...
Total Ellipse of the Heart
Following the death of Lazarus both Mary and Martha said to Jesus, “If only you had been here this wouldn’t have happened.” Have you ...Following the death of Lazarus both Mary and Martha said to Jesus, “If only you had been here this wouldn’t have happened.” Have you ever asked God why He let something happen? Our understanding ...
On beginning a New Year: I will wait for the Lord
“I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet ...“I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: ...
Advent 3: Joy – Claire Black
When I was a kid, I loved decorating the Christmas tree. It was tradition for my dad and I, as official Kelly family tree-seekers, to find the perfect Kelly tree. Not quite Charlie Brown, ...
Advent 1: Peace – Claire Black
There was a time in my life when everything felt like the exact opposite of peace: distress, anguish, despair, anxiety, worry, and catastrophe. There were moments when the weight I felt on my chest ...