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Happy New Year to All of you!  Here is a quote that sums up what seems to be the best New Year’s resolution of all — if we must have one!  It is the call to WAKE UP!  May you…

Beautiful, anguished, hopeful words from Steve Bell’s new album.  From the title track. Keening For The Dawn On and on the night goes on Brooding dark before the dawn We are waiting Worried lips rehearse our creeds Bellies swollen with…

GIVEN RECENT EVENTS IN THE NEWS, IT IS CLEAR THAT WE DESPERATELY NEED LISTENING HEARTS – OPEN TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO GOD! We have just completed the first intensive of Living from the Heart here in the Lower Mainland. …

I was listening to a radio broadcast yesterday in which contemplative was used to mean quiet.  Really it has nothing to do with quiet but with opening our hearts to the fulness of God.  Here is a quote from a…

“It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” Wendell Berry, Quoted in Coming…

On the recommendation of a fellow-partner, whom I respect very much, I have begun reading the book, Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love For This World for Crucifixion and Empire. 2008.  It has already captured my interest.  I offer to…

I was at a gathering of men this past weekend.  We began in 1998 when Miriam was dying, and they gathered to support me.  Then it became a support for us all and we met monthly.  Several of us have…