How many of you grew up with Lego?  Not me, I had the little soft red building blocks when I was a kid. Other kids had Lego, but I had these little red building blocks. They looked like bricks but they only connected at two points and those points were square, so everything you built…

If you remember reading the August 22 1949 edition of Time Magazine then you would remember seeing a young Elizabeth Taylor on the cover and various articles that almost sound current. Under the National section, for example, there was a little bit of a scandal in the white house.  Really?  A scandal in the White…

 It is a serendipitous story, which is a story about serendipity.  Serendipity, isn’t that a great word?  It is probably one of my favourite words.  You know what serendipity means right?  Serendipity means an unexpected discovery.  You know when you are looking for something and you find something else.  You know you drop the remote…

It’s the end of the world as we know it. Really?   There are certain events that spark certain responses from Christians as a direct consequence of the scripture that we read earlier.  Let’s go back to the last part of that scripture:  Mark 13:7-8  And you will hear of wars and threats of wars, but…

People died, children were conceived, hearts were broken lives were changed and history was made.  But now the summer of love was over.  By October of 1967 the movement known as the Summer of Love, when over 100,000 hippies and flower children had descended on the Haight Asbury district of San Francisco was but a…

Summer of Love 10  Seeing clearly By September of 1967 the residents of Haight Asbury had fallen out of love with the 100,000 hippies and flower children who had descended on their neighborhood for what had come to be known as the Summer of Love.  The bloom was coming off the rose for the participants…

Can you remember being a kid?  Can you remember the thrill of each new morning and the wonder of each new day?  Can you remember when a week seemed like an eternity, and it was a lifetime between Christmases?  Can you remember nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and thinking that all stories had a happy…

Summer of Love 5 Love Never Fails.  The permanence of Love Well it’s been fifty years.  Fifty years ago in Canada we celebrated our Centennial.  Fifty years ago the Beatles released “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”.  Fifty years ago Interracial Marriage was declared constitutional by The United States Supreme Court.  Fifty years ago Elvis…

2017 is an year of anniversaries. the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant reformation, the 150th anniversary of Confederation, it was a 100 years ago the survivors of the Shackleton expedition were rescued from Antartica.  2017 is the 40th Anniversary of  Star Wars and The 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love. Last week Deborah mentioned…

Fifty years ago this summer I was a 7 year old living in Germany.  So I didn’t make it to the summer of love.  But others were there.  George Harrison was there, as were The Who, Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia.  They had joined the so called hippies and flower children who had…