Yearly Archives: 2010

I’m a person who loves to be active.  I love to plan a day so that one thing flows into the next.  I derive enjoyment from a productive day.

Then there are the days that are really meant to slow us down and recreate us – our sabbaths.  In a society that has no sense of sabbath, the external pressure to stop is gone.

Some of us, the older ones, remember days when Sundays found few stores open.  In fact, I remember Wednesday afternoons having stores closed.  Now some larger stores are open 24 hours a day, with maybe Christmas day closing.

I think I too easily slip into that pattern.  To break this, I listen to others (maybe not as well as I should).  I am also learning that the root of not taking a Sabbath often comes down to fear.  I fear that I’m the only one who can do a certain task, so I stretch into the day of rest.  Or I fear that what I do is the foundation for others, and that they need my help “right now.”  Maybe not!!

I’m writing this to remind myself.  As one person enjoined, “Start your week now.”  I’ll be looking for my sabbath this week.  Let’s see how it goes!!

Finally, I’ve started to put my sermons on the internet.  They have been recorded for the last few years – digitally for the last year or so. 

The last few weeks I’ve had requests for a sermon or two I’ve preached.   Someone asked if they could access the sermon online.  I said we had CD’s but not web access.

Which got me thinking.  Partly because of an email my brother-in-law sent (a preacher in Oregon), I popped onto the Canby Alliance Church website and saw where they had made access to my brother-in law (Tim Barton) quite easy.  That led to a phone call or two.  The computer savvy assistant pastor, Kyle, pointed me to Sermon Cloud.

So, I have my first sermon on their site.  In the next while I hope to link from our church website, www.kindersleyalliance.com, to the sermons.  But, until then, head over to www.sermoncloud.com and type in Kindersley Alliance.  Up will pop the sermon text and a link to streaming audio, or to a download (using icons that hopefully you will understand).  Give it a try.  Let me know what you think.

We have a new dental team headed to Kindersley.  That’s what I heard on our provincial news this morning.  The location appears to be right downtown (OK, at the beginning of Main Street – which is our downtown!).

Often times a new office opens up new opportunities.  One of the current dental studios in town is quite well attended – maybe they’ve done too good a job! 

So, soon we’ll see another office in town.  Oil industry work has picked up as well.

There is a feeling of optimism in the air.  Even the burning of a rink ends up being a new beginning!  Let’s see what goes on next!

Many years ago the walk or horse back ride to town and back was an event.  Saturday night was the usual time.  A bath could precede the evening.  On the corners you stand and chat, maybe sing or watch people passing, head to a concert or dance.

Nowadays?

Today I headed to the next town over.  Instead of a few kilometers, it’s almost one hundred.  I started in the morning and came back by 3:00.  This was business and not pleasure.  Lunch followed a subcommittee meeting.  I also tucked in short visits to my sister and my brother-in-law.

Arriving home, I did some banking, and then headed back to work before finishing the day at home for supper.

Not as romantic as the old days, but functional!  And that’s good enough for today!