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Happy New Year
Welcome to 2025! If you have a seat belt, it is probably a good idea to fasten it now – it’s going to be a wild ride. There will be joy and sorrow, death and birth, war and peace, natural disasters, triumph and defeat. Just like every year. I’m simultaneously anticipating and dreading what the […]
Christmas Eve 2024
My grandson has a job he takes very seriously. During Advent, every time he has visited us he has made a beeline for the Christmas tree and turned on the lights. That there are presents under the tree with his name on them hasn’t sunk in. For him, Christmas isn’t about what he will get […]
Fourth Sunday
Feeling in a festive mood and too laid back to write some new reflections. For the fourth Sunday of Advent I am reposting this piece from December 2021. I was struck by this photo when I saw it online. It is a reminder at this time of year there is more to Christmas than a cultural […]
The Inspection
On this Flashback Friday we go back to the post from December 20, 2016. Our local bus service was running a $120 million deficit last time i looked, and fare inspectors aren’t cutting into that much. Of course, if the buses ran on time or when they are scheduled, ridership might improve. Apparently though, the […]
Third Sunday In Advent
Christmas is getting closer, and the theme for this Sunday is joy. With that in mind, I thought we’d go with some a couple of humorous images of the season.
Carpet Flashback
There are only a few shopping days left until Christmas, so on this Flashback Friday I though it appropriate to return to a post from December 13, 2016 and a shopping experience I had in Istanbul. I attended a workshop where the speaker recounted how she bought a carpet on a trip to Istanbul. She […]
Second Sunday
Today is the second Sunday of the Advent season, the day we light the peace candle. Not that there’s much peace in the world today, especially in the Middle East. The absence of peace is a reminder of why we need Advent and Christmas. Jesus came to bring peace. Left on our own, we humans […]
Man The Lifeboats!
I know the title should have been “Person The Lifeboats” but it doesn’t flow off the tongue the same way. Rest assured I wasn’t trying to be sexist. It is Flashback Friday though, so we don’t we head back to what was posted here on December 6, 2014. I was flabbergasted at the words of […]
First Sunday of Advent
The Christmas season officially begins today. It is a time of anticipation of the joy of the birth of the Christ child. You don’t need to be a Christian to be captured by the season. Probably most of those who celebrate are not Christ followers. But it is a special time for Christians. My family […]
Flashback Claus
Continuing with our Friday theme of looking back at previous posts, here’s one from November 22, 2014 – which has its roots more than 20 years before that. In shopping malls across North American the excitement has almost peaked: Santa Claus is coming! Indeed, many communities celebrate with a Santa Claus parade, held now about […]
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