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October 2015

October 28, 2015

Affirming Our Good

Do you use affirmations? Or, do you understand what they are and how they work?...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

The Southern Belle Primer

Why do you care what other people think of you? As a recovering people-pleaser I’ve...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Demonstration 101

Years ago Jack Nicholson starred as a devilish character in the adaptation of John Updike’s...

October 17, 2014

“The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself “

"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself " Franklin D Roosevelt The spread...

October 16, 2014

Why I Don’t Eat Onions

When I was a small child growing up in a prairie village in Saskatchewan, I...

October 13, 2014

Thank you Malala

This past week the Nobel Prize took the bold step of granting its Peace Prize...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Planting Seeds

When I was a farmer, I used to spend every spring planting seeds. The tools,...

September 02, 2014

What We Learn From Despair

I always find it interesting to watch what the media pays attention to. Recently we’ve...

August 2014

August 25, 2014

Living the Menu of Life

Recently a friend of mine shared with me one of the lessons she’s been learning...

August 18, 2014

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

One of the best-loved fairy tales, and the first feature-length film Walt Disney ever did,...

August 14, 2014

Plugged In

Recently, I was walking down a city street when I saw a 60-something woman outside...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Being Raggedy Ann in a Barbie World

Have you ever felt out-of-place in social situations? I have. A friend once said she...

July 16, 2014

What’s to like about beauty?

It’s summer, and if there is one thing we know about summer it’s that beauty...

July 02, 2014

The Lessons of Fear

How many times have you been afraid? And when you have been afraid, what action...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Oh God, What to call it?

My favorite name for Divinity is “The Thing Itself.” The phrase reminds me that I...

June 25, 2014

Pride is a Many Splendored Thing

The conversation is turning. Only a decade ago religious ministers across North America who chose...

June 16, 2014

Let the Killing Stop

On the same day that thousands of members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police mourned...

June 12, 2014

Expecting to Fly

Spring is one of those great times of year when we start to see the...

June 05, 2014

What are you for?

In the days when I was building my Centre I noticed there was something that...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Perils of Blindness

One of the things people often ask me is: how did I go from being...

May 21, 2014

Use Your Inside Voice

A few years back it was popular for parents to remind their children to be...

May 21, 2014

The Still Small Voice – Are You Listening to It?

Do you feel lost at times, almost in a state of paralysis when confronted with...

May 15, 2014

Not Choosing Is Choosing

Have you ever had a decision to make in your life and just can’t figure...

May 13, 2014

Courage to Answer the Question

One of the turning points in my life came out of the mouths of babes,...

May 07, 2014

The Crosswalk of Life

The other day when I was driving through one of the main intersections in town...

May 01, 2014

The Power of Saying “Yes”

Have you ever wanted something – REALLY wanted something! – but, when it was placed...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Walking the Road to Creativity

With spring in the air, many of us are taking time to get outside and...

April 24, 2014

Ageless Mind or Aging Mind

"The mind that dies every day to the memories of yesterday, to all the...

April 22, 2014

One Mind, One Earth

There is an old Spike Milligan poem which tells the tale of a little girl...

April 15, 2014

Dying to Believe

A number of years ago when I was still a young minister, a congregant told...

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