September 30

We all need to look out for the interests of others and become servants.

September 29

Legalizing brothels and balancing the constitutional rights of sex-trade workers may be breaking the chains of injustice but doesn't really free the oppressed.

September 28

Is it possible for one country to threaten the rest of the world like Ecuador is doing — by asking for money or else the rain forests will become an oil field? Are the trees clapping their hands or growing money?

September 27

 

Many physical illnesses seem to be linked to the (un)wellness in our souls. Doctors and the pharmaceuticals are over-medicating and over-testing. "Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows".

September 25

The baby of a Tamil refuge was born into the Canadian family this week. We're not supposed to be tossed back and forth like infants on waves of uncertainty—instead we are part of the ligaments of a body whose head is Christ.

September 24

Artist photographer Mark Kasumovic documents people in massive settings, reminding me of how wide, long, deep and high God's love is for us small people.
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/beyondimaginings/index.cfm

September 23

The fact that we are created as God's workmanship to do good works, doesn't mean we are perfect. Terry Fox— what an example.

September 22

In his book Globish, Robert McCrum, explains that the rise of English, as the world's global tongue also helped forge a national identity. Isaiah talks about the nations being like a drop in a bucket.

September 16

A headline over several short stories, including one about Calvin College banning the Canadian indie-pop group called The New Pornographers, because of their name, read "Signs of the Apocalypse".  Isaiah speaks about devastation of greater magnitude. Lord, please cover this world and all its triviality with your grace and mercy.

September 15

The definition of hypocrisy is the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense. NP tells a story of a civil rights photographer who was also a civil rights informant for the FBI. In Galatians I read that even Barnabas was led astray by hypocrisy. It's hard to act in line with the truth.

September 11

Are we done grieving the Post asks, in respect to 9/11? "The people walking in darkness have seen a great light..."

September 10

I like the notion of I Corinthians 11 reading like Paul's résume, and unlike New Zealand's top military scientist, Paul is being brutally honest.

September 9

A senior man in Manitoba, survived five days alone in the woods. He talked about the fear he experienced especially at night. In Isaiah I read that God will send refuge to his people and cover us with a canopy.

Septmeber 8

Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, a sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich in the United Nations Art Collection makes reference to a passage in Isaiah. It makes me wonder why some small town preacher is stirring the pot of dissension in such a vulnerable age.

September 7

NP wrote the story in such a way, that it seems like China's billionaires were too cheap to give to the Gate's Foundation when in fact, they just didn't want the attention. God asks us to give cheerfully not grudgingly.

September 4

"As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are tapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them." (Ecclesiastes. 7). It seems to me that some of the worst evil is premeditated atrocities of war and crimes of hate and rape against women. Lord have mercy.

September 3

In his new book, British theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking says that "in the beginning God didn't have to do a thing".  In Ecclesiastes I read about strength in numbers — "a cord of three strands is not easily broken". There is strength in knowledge, theories and ideas. Thank you God for not having a beginning or end.

September 2

During a conversation I had this morning with my daughters we talked briefly about contrasts. In Regina some parents of accused bullies are refusing to except the punishment of the school and are suing the school board. Eccelestics says that contrasts are part of life. Aren't we the ones who mix the colours and make them muddy?

September 1

Briton's prime minister David Cameron, is taking a paternity leave after the birth of the couple's fourth child. Last year their six year old son died. It often takes majour tragedies for men to slow down and perhaps ask big questions. Job suffered tremendous tragedies and his big questions were answered in amazing ways.