Driving home the other day, I had an unusual experience. Racing along Highway 407 we were suddenly hit by an intense storm. Snow and hail were swirling and pelting, the road was turning white, I could hardly see the lines. But the unusual thing was that through the storm, perhaps some miles further down the road, […]
Lord make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, joy. O Christ, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as […]
“Though sickness is so familiar a thing, we are by no means clear in ordinary life about what it is. We recognise pain and discomfort or limitations in the use of the bodily powers as tokens of its presence. We ascribe it to outer causes or to inner disturbances of the emotions — but still […]
“Rightly understood, chronic diseases can bring about a wonderful maturing of our innermost nature. Prolonged illness can have its compensations in that it makes us more mature than those who are aways well, who are perhaps so full of vitality that one could almost call them ‘unhealthily healthy’. What comes into being through suffering rightly borne […]
“One of the greatest difficulties, when we attempt to understand our personal destiny, lies in the rigidity of our thinking. We have grown accustomed to judging a particular event in our habitual way; and it is in our nature that such habitual judgments often have a negative colour. Nothing is to be won from them directly; they […]
1st Epiphany Matthew 2: 1-12 When Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea—during the time of King Herod—behold: wise priest-kings from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the one born here King of the Jews? We have seen his star rise in the east and have come to worship him.” When King Herod […]
Last week many of us attended The Shepherd’s Play. The play is of course the story of the shepherds hearing the good news from the angel and finding Jesus in a manger. But it is also the story of Mary who journeys with Joseph to give birth to the Christ child. And I was struck again […]
‘Peace on earth’ is not something which we can wish for or demand from others, but it is something which we, as developing sons of God, should creatively produce in the world. Where there are real Christians, there is ‘peace on earth’ around them. If individual Christians come together, these small islands unite into larger islands. The […]
As I was walking to church the other morning, I realized the old adage, “There is no such thing as cold weather, only poor clothing.” Because even though my journey was snowy and a freezing -6, my coat was long and thick, my hat was made of fur, my gloves were warm. Just like my walk, […]
Some weeks ago there was yet another mass shooting. Robert Bowers murdered 11 souls at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. He was then found and taken to the hospital. And as Robert was being wheeled into the emergency room, he yelled ‘death to all Jews’. The nurse caring for him felt those words painfully […]
