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Don’t Mess with Dad!
This afternoon I received a text from a friend in Australia sharing an all too common story. Someone they knew was out at an event last night and had her drink spiked with ketamine (date rape drug). The police took care of her as she was completely wasted. Then she ended up in hospital where…
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Trust
Earlier today I had my weekly coffee and a chat with my friend Kyle. We met at the beach and ambled down the pathway sharing visions for the future, disappointments in the past, and how it is to not know where you’re going or what God’s up to? Kyle’s been a great friend over the…
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Bye Bye Barbara
Barbara Jemson passes away on May 20th in Victoria with family by her side. She’d drifted from us mentally over the past few years and John, her husband of so many years, passed in December, 2019. Barbara Duke was born on February 24th, 1932 in the Sub-district of Sydenham in the County of London. She…
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Where Have All the Children Gone?
“They did that!? No, it can’t possibly be true, they seemed so clean and strong. They advocated for human rights, everywhere.” Canada is the Promised Land to multitudes around the world who yearn for freedom, equality, opportunity, and peace. It was to me, growing up in apartheid-scarred South Africa where I witnessed the ravages of…
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Peace, despite…
Sometimes these blogs come in a flurry… then not so much 🙂 Talking of Peace… here’s one of the daily readings in my collection of readings (Bread ‘n Wine) that I’m compiling for who knows when…. Peace, Despite… I suppose all of us secretly dream of life as perpetual paradise. No worries or stress, zero…
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Cans of Worms
Our community shelves are buckling beneath the weight of storage. So many cans of worms. The supply appears far greater than the demand. Every home has them as well. Every church, every business, many relationships. That’s a lot of worms, and cans, and storage. The phrase, opening a can of worms apparently originated around the…
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Peace for Jerusalem
A good friend contacted me today and said that it sounded if I was taking sides in the conflict between Israel and Palestine and believing Islamic/Palestinian propaganda (in my previous blog). I am not taking sides but was merely using the real world to pose the difficult question of how are Christians salt and light…
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God’s no Bully, And He ain’t no Coward
Have you ever been really upset about something and poured your anger and disappointment out before God and waited for him to agree with you? Agree that the other person was wrong, agree that you haven’t been treated fairly, agree that someone should apologize? And when our words run out there’s a long silence. “Well,…
Googling God 