Monthly Archives: October 2007

I guess life is often waiting for thanksgiving.  The attitude of gratitude doesn’t spring up as often and as spontaneously as we would like.

The talk shows yesterday focused on being thankful.  Parents, and wealth and good jobs and nice weather and healthy pets can all become items on the list.  My list would also include our children and good shelter and the friends we worship with.

And that’s where thanksgiving becomes a true "holiday".  When we ask to whom we are thankful — for to be thankful begs that question — most would struggle to gave a very nebulous, abstract or general reply.  They know they have it good, but they don’t know who to acknowledge for that goodness.

Well, today we will sit at meal with my family — all the living siblings will be there, and my mom and dad will be glad to see us all.  Based on year’s of faith and thankfulness to God in their own lives, I expect they will direct our thoughts to Jesus Christ’s gifts to us and remind us to be thankful to Him.  Others of us will share our own personal journeys and, in the end, will also land on God’s graciousness to us.

So, let me start  the festivities by acknowledging my thankfulness to God.  May this weekend (for us Canadians — and I hope for others as well) be thanksfilled!

Here we are — in the famous land called "Luseland".  We are a group of pastors from the region around Kindersley.  We meet to support one another, encourage growth in each other, and to re-create.  That’s what we did!

I’m reflecting on lightbulbs.  Or, more rightly, I’m looking at the reflection of lightbulbs on my laptop screen. 

The bulbs twist in a circle.  Round and round.  The newest, energy efficient style.  The light that is emitted comes in cool white and a warm yellow — different strokes for different folks!

In the old days we used incandescent lighting.  No ballasts, excited gases or twisted glass.  Just a globe of glass with electified wires that glowed brightly, casting light throughout a room.

What will be the next step?  In 1975 I stayed overnight at an engineer’s house.  He was working on the newest thing — halogen lighting.  If I were to stay overnight in 2007, what would be in the works?  Perhaps a way to gather sunlight into a box which slowly emitted light.  Or maybe lighting triggered by the warmth of a touch and maintained by perpetual motion. 

OR . . . perhaps two stones sparking a cone of grass — and capturing the smoke as a preservative.  Oops — maybe that’s been done before??