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Holding the Unwrapped Gift with Reverence

February 10, 2015
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I’ve been thinking this week about gifts and thresholds; the moment you open one or the moment you cross another.  This orchid is the way the moment looks, that moment that can be the length of a breath, or a glance, or a lifetime; the moment before you unwrap the gift that will change you or…

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Prayer Flag

February 5, 2015
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May my life, Holy One Be a prayer flag Hung on the line of creation The words written in my heart Washed by the rain Blown by the wind Til the word that I am becomes one with the elements May it be a good word Light and graceful and reverent May it be powerful…

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Light, Language of Belovedness

February 4, 2015
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There was once someone, who said such amazing things, and did such wonderful things, people followed him.   One day, they just had to ask, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am the light”. (Godly Play Volume 3) We say this each Sunday as we light the Christ candle. We are always talking about the…

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A Moment Made Large

January 12, 2015
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Early today as I watched the snow, I saw it so soft and full and beautiful I wanted to go outside and lie down in it; to watch it come toward me, to feel the flakes light on me; to see beauty from underneath.  As the afternoon went on it finally seemed the only thing to do was that. …

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Taken, Blessed, Broken, Given

November 16, 2014
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Taken, Blessed, Broken, Given Matthew 26:17-18; 26-28 This morning we come, once again to the table, the table of our lives as Christians, the table of remembrance, of celebration, of love and of service. This morning we come to this table, where, as the words we will say later remind us “we can most fully be ourselves…

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Living Water of Our Lives

October 24, 2014
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Last week I spent some time at Tatamagouche, “the place where two rivers meet”.  It was a time washed in beauty.  The sunlit leaves coloured the text of the day like vibrant illuminated letters.  Even my battered little camera outdid itself. 

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A Door of Hope

October 3, 2014
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This week the daily lectionary took me to a line in Hosea, in the second chapter, the words after the anger and betrayal, which must be dealt with but not here, in this Moment.   I came to these words, There I will . . . change a valley of trouble into a door of hope. …

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The Bowl of the Day

October 3, 2014
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Before yesterday’s  noon meal I gave thanks for the day; not only a smooth day or an easy day; a very mixed day.  Still a day that called out thanks. I found myself pulled back through the afternoon to those thanks and to the day I held in my hands like a bowl;  a bowl in which God is…

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Softly

March 24, 2014
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Easter    John 20: 1 -18 You know how, when the sun softly falls across your page as you read Or, on your face, as you wake in a day that is unclaimed by all your plans, or when it settles on the wall in the late afternoon, making art of the shadows When that…

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Prayers Under it All

March 24, 2013
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Our Life is Showing

January 20, 2013
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  Imagine, the Lectionary yields up today, what Luke offers as Jesus’ inaugural address. The Lectionary offers it up on the day our new ministry together begins. I come to the Sackville Pastoral Charge and I am met by these words offered up by the Lectionary, these words of Jesus coming to Nazareth placed by Luke at the beginning…

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