Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
I was married recently and, among other things, it afforded me the chance to get out of the suburbs and into the heart of the city I love: Vancouver. However, it is a move that has also left me head-fogged and heart-twisted. For while I am encircled by the beauty of...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
As I would walk in Vancouver’s downtown eastside, occasionally I would get a sense that I was walking through the valley of the shadow of death. There was the crying of sirens, which would spike right after welfare cheques came. The cries hear throughout the streets...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
I see Jesus all the time. I saw Him today. in the Bible. He was teaching and preaching. He was healing the sick and raising the dead. He was loving people and forgiving them of their sins. He was performing miracles. He was leading his followers into a new way of...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
Thomas Merton and Henri Nouwen were two of the most read and best loved spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Each published a prodigious stream of books and articles, and their readers span the ecumenical spectrum. It is no wonder then that they are often...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
I wait upon the LORD, Voices tell me there is no way, Rushing, crashing, falling, diving, The thoughts invade my day. I cry unto the LORD, Love unfailing washing my all, Shame, pride, rejection, fear, The winter winds enjoy my fall. I sing unto the LORD, My...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
Here I sit in the legislative reading room in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is easy, being inside this grand structure, to feel that this Provincial Government, this country, is much greater than one person. That for one person to give themselves to this would be natural and...
