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I have beautiful eyes! :-)
Just come back from a long overdue eye check up. Went through the routine of eye drops, chin on chin-rest look at the green dot – snap-click. “OK, swivel round and rest chin here, puff of air on eye… wide open. Let’s try again…. there we are. Take a seat, the doctor will see you…
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Looking for Love Tonight?
If you’re ever feeling distant from God and empty of love…… listen to this song and ‘be loved’….. 🙂 Then jump up and down to this…. should feel much better….
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Someone ‘Passed Away’
I recently received a sad email notifying me and others that someone we all knew had ‘passed away’. I liked the person, what I knew of him, and we enjoyed brief visits and banter as our paths crossed on a weekly basis over the past ten years. I began to think of how we deal…
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Dancing for Joy
Someone forwarded me this video of people dancing in public to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. It is cool, inspired, out in the open, transparent joy. I believe God is breathing life and freedom – as he always has – into anyone and everyone who wants it. But he can only fill open hearts and…
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Answering Michael…. or trying to….
We’re in the changing room getting ready for another game of squash, lacing up worn out shoes and adjusting our knee braces. Two men in denial about their aging and squeezing the last drop from a game we love that is the domain of a younger generation. “Why can’t you just repent before you die…
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Oh for this kind of passion from men in a pub :-)
I wonder what images are conjured up when you think of the group of men and women who first gathered around Jesus? On the shores of Galilee living and working out of the fishing villages of Capernaum and Magda. I doubt these people were weak or bookworms. They lived in challenging times, constantly harassed by…
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I came home to find strangers living there….
It was most unexpected, bizarre, unimaginable. We came home from church yesterday and a young couple and their three kids had taken over the house. In fact some of our cherished possessions were dumped in a pile in the driveway. Two of the older boys had ransacked my workshop and were building a tree house…
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A Lifetime of Easters
It’s been a wet, windy, and a mostly grey Easter weekend on Vancouver Island with storms creating some measure of havoc, disrupting travel plans, uprooting trees, and causing power outages. We visited the famous Coombs Market on Saturday – famous for grass growing on the roof and goats grazing with an upper class dignity ‘up…
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