Fear will be your enemy. And that statement seems to set the tone very early in the movie. If there seems to be one overriding emotion in the movie “Frozen” it is fear. The King and Queen are fearful for their daughters and so the girls are separated and grow up alone. Elsa is afraid…
Happy Thanksgiving
So, how was your Thanksgiving? We had a full house this year. Deborah and Stefan and the three girls were here along with our son Stephen. We did the traditional feast on Monday and will eat leftovers for a good part of the week. Thanksgiving was good, and we had a riot with the grandkids. …
Let Go of Self Love
A year ago the word Frozen referred to food that was in your freezer and “Let it Go” was something you told you four year old when you wanted them to release their grip on a toy or their sibling or when you were counselling someone over some hurt from the past. That all changed…
Love thy Neighbour and turn down the Music
“I called the cops on a church!” Well, that made my ears perk up. I was working on my message at a Tim’s in the city the other day when I heard those words. I wasn’t exactly eavesdropping up to that point, but that quickly changed. According to the story that I overheard, the gentlemen…
Worship in Truth
We don’t know the circumstances of her life, or of her social situation. We only meet her because of a chance encounter that she had with Jesus. Jesus and his friends were on their way to Galilee from Judea and on the way they passed by a village in Samaria and while the apostles went…
Look Both Ways. . .
Seriously? A couple of weeks ago I was reading in the paper that city staff had recommended that Halifax should institute a pedestrian safety campaign to help reduce the number of car pedestrian accidents. Seriously? When I was three my mother taught me to look both ways before crossing the street and when I was…
Gifts for Everyone
I love the distance between my birthday and Christmas, it’s perfect. It divides the year in half, when I was a kid I knew that I would get gifts in June and then again in December. I always felt sorry for the kids whose birthdays were close to Christmas, not just in December but in…
Gottca
They think they’ve solved the Jack the Ripper murders. After 126 years,Russell Edwards, a scientist in Liverpool, has claimed he has solved the murders that terrorized London in 1888. DNA from a shawl worn by Catherine Eddowes, one of the Ripper’s victims, has been matched with a descendent of Aaron Kosminski, an original suspect in…
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
He knocked on the door wondering how he’d be received when the door was opened. His name was Onesimus and he was a slave who had run away and was now returning, returning to what he wasn’t sure. We don’t know a whole lot about what happened between the time Onesimus had escaped from slavery…
What me worry?
It was 2:17 in the morning when it happened. I woke up. But more than that, I woke up and it was pouring out, and my first thought was a question. Did I put the roof up on my car when I came home? The obvious answer was, yes. I have been driving convertibles since…