Yearly Archives: 2011

I was thinking about the day I was married to my good wife, Jill.

The day started with wind, then a bit of rain (maybe even snow, if I remember rightly).  A little coffee spill on the bride’s dress.  A reception that I can’t remember much of.  By the evening we were both very tired.  Our first night of sex together was new and slow and good!

And now, 35 years later we are more in love than ever. 

Two kids, both grown, graced, and some days stressed our home.  Today they both live their own lives – and we thank God for them!!

I started vocational ministry 35 years ago in Kindersley.  I’m back again – and finding the work fulfilling.  With Jill by my side, partnering with me, I’m excited to see what God is going to do next.

And to think, tomorrow is Thanksgiving!  I’d have to agree, I’m looking forward to a great day of thanksgiving!

What a great time with a planning committee today!

Our Christmas program is planned for Sunday morning, December 18th with a lunch to follow.  The title?  3011 . . . A space holiday!  The fun part?  We have original music and theatre, along with participants from the congregation. 

I’m hoping for a large crowd.  Last year we had 145 out.  This year I’d love to see over 150!  Plan now to join us if  you can!!

I’ve been having a sense of revolution in thinking.  All related to new technology.  Technology that Steve Jobs helped pioneer – which seems such a weird term that.  Pioneer has more often been related to settlement of land rather than the invisible world of electrical impulses and binary accumulations!

I still consider paper a great textured experience.  As I open a book there is a sense of reality, of touch and feel.  Unlike an ebook or computer screen.

But I do find that I am more and more dependent on the internet.  Not unexpected from the projections I learned in my library science program 25 years ago.

With the easy access and wide availability you soon learn that the paper on the shelves are not necessary.  At least to a point.  There are the books that are constant reference materials that are nice to put in your hand.  But the number of those reference books are not as great as they used to be when you can access information over the internet.

So today I began to take home books that are not necessary to adorn the shelves in my office.  At least six boxes so far, and more to go.  As the shelves become barer, I’m contemplating what will fill the space. 

What would you suggest could be placed on the empty spaces? 

There are days when we would just like to ask God to wait for us to finish something else off.  So, reading in the book of Judges chapter 6 (NIV) today I came across just that type of situation.  Below is the passage quoted – make what you will of it!

¹⁷ Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. ¹⁸ Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.”

   And the LORD said, “I will wait until you return.”

Now, you’ll need to read the rest of the chapter to get the full context – but it does remind you that God could leave us whenever He was wants – but He chooses to remain with us!