Trinity, February 26, 2021 A very wise man, Viktor Frankl, once wrote… “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances….” In the darkness of a concentration camp, Frankl awoke to this truth, that our essential humanity […]
Trinity, Feb. 19, 2021 One of the most striking and disturbing phenomena of our time is the division that is growing on all fronts of society. It does not stop at the national borders. We see this division happening in groups and individuals who fight for their self-interest and, in the process, shut others out — everyone for himself. As long as we do this, we […]
Inspiring Easter words from a recent interview with our dear friend Paul Hodgkins “In Foundation Studies, I have often said what was once experienced as the spiritual is now experiencing itself in the human being. So it is not humans becoming spiritual, it is the spiritual become human. Where am I going with this…oh, yes…so the organizing […]
The two most powerful acts of breathing occur at birth and death. Ours is a life journey from breathing in to breathing out. I have never been with a newborn taking their first breath. I have been with people taking their last breath, the final exhalation and the unearthly silence that follows when airborne the […]
Now that we can no longer go to the gym there are other muscles to train. One of these is the ‘distancing muscle.’ In acting this is the art of stretching the distance between two actors on stage without letting the space between them go slack – or dead. In music, it is the art of stretching time – without completely […]
on the 3rd Passiontide Week, 2020 In light of the gospel reading, John 8:1-11Dear Congregation, Right now, in so many parts of the world, on every continent, doctors and nurses are trying to bring care and support to human beings who are suffering the effects of a world-wide disease. One can feel the prayers of support, […]
Contemplation for Palm Sunday In light of the gospel reading, Matthew 21 Most each and every one of us over the past week including myself, has woken up at least once at 2 or 3pm, with fear in our hearts, fear of sickness, fear ultimately of death. In this time, we seem to be […]
I once went to an arboretum and saw an exhibit of valuable and exotic woods. Some of the most beautiful of them had swirling twisting grain, or little black marks sprinkled through them. I learned that these special grains form in a tree where it has been injured. A burl or gall may form. One […]
Dear Friends, We live in challenging times, apocalyptic times. Apocalypse means ‘lifting the vail’. It is not so much the destruction that gives apocalypse its meaning but the experience that everything is being exposed, challenged to the core. Apocalypse is that what is on the inside is revealed- both the good and the bad. Egotism is being revealed. […]
The Weekly Word Reflections on The Sunday Service for Children By Brenda Hammond I left my beloved Richmond Hill community to come to Ottawa and give day-care to my grandson, who was about to turn one year old. He is now thirteen, and his younger brother eleven. They do not attend a Waldorf school, and so […]
