I recently joined a group of friends for a creative Bible study in Psalms. Using the book Psalms Alive by David Kitz, we’ll be working our way through several Psalms in the next weeks. We share our thoughts and creations in a Facebook group (since we’re far apart geographically). We started our study by reading… Continue reading God’s Word #BibleJournaling
A few weeks ago I attended the Global Leadership Summit (by simulcast). One of the speakers was Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook and author of the book Lean In). This gorgeous young woman looked like she had it all, and had it all together. Then she shared the story of her young husband’s sudden death… Continue reading Gratitude (Spiritual Journey First Thursday)
In the vintage Saskatchewan farmhouse where I grew up, a door that looked like every other in the house opened to a stairway to the basement. At the bottom of the stairs was another door to a dark and vacant cell that was once a coal chute. From somewhere I got the idea that that… Continue reading Bear Scare
At the beginning of each year I choose a word for the year. My word for 2017 is LISTEN. I also always choose a Bible verse to go with that word. My verse for 2017 is John 10:3,4, where Jesus talks about the Good Shepherd calling his own sheep by name and the sheep recognizing… Continue reading Listen #BibleJournaling
Jesus’ parables are full of artsy drawables. Yet, when I contemplated journaling the Parable of the Sower (Luke 8:11-15), illustrations of the old fashioned process of sowing grain and it falling into the literal destinations named in the parable seemed like avoiding the issue somehow. And so I asked myself, what would examples of unfruitful… Continue reading Receptive Soil #BibleJournaling
It Happened in Moscow: A Memoir of Discovery by Maureen Klassen My rating: 4 of 5 stars It Happened In Moscow begins with a surprise phone call to Herb and Maureen Klassen’s Moscow apartment in 1993. That call opened a Pandora’s box of secrets. Herb’s parents (C.F. and Mary Klassen) had immigrated from Russia to… Continue reading It Happened in Moscow (review)
Welcome to Poetry Friday, hosted right here today! (Someone mentioned they had trouble finding the link to the widget. It's way down at the bottom of the page, but also HERE for posting links and reading.) It was exactly a year ago that I hosted the Poetry Camp Edition of Poetry Friday. It’s hard to… Continue reading Poetry Friday – Pumpkin Edition
Today is the first Thursday of September and time for the monthly Spiritual Journey Thursday post. This month we’re hosted by Ramona, who is discussing her one-little-word for 2017 - NOURISH (what a fabulous word!). One of the first things that comes to mind as soul and spirit nourishment for me is music. Though its… Continue reading Nourished by music (Spiritual Journey Thursday)
Are you the kind of person who likes surprises thrown into your day? Or are you a scheduler who prefers to have your day outlined in your planner and then proceed according to plan? I’m definitely the latter. So, a few weeks ago when I read, in Matthew 14, about Jesus’ botched up day plans,… Continue reading Hospitality #BibleJournaling
You may have heard about the wildfires that are devastating the interior of B.C. Here in the southwest corner of the province we have been getting a daily reminder of those fires in hazy, smoke-filled skies. Though we’ve had a stretch of clear weather, the sky lights up late and darkens early under an other-worldly… Continue reading Fire Test #BibleJournaling
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