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Everyone knows the word “crepuscular”.

NOT!

My wife ran across the word in one of her books she is reading.  Neither of us knew what it meant.  So we headed to the dictionary (meaning we looked the word up on Google).

The next day I was headed out to teach at a school just a short ways south of town.  The sun was rising.  As I drove, I was on the alert for crepuscular animals.  That includes deer and antelope (although they are more pronghorns than strictly antelopes around here – a story for another day).

Your turn to do a little search!!  Then try out the word on someone else – as soon as you can!

Around 80 years or so ago, my father and his brother hitchhiked, biked and rode train to Ontario.

The trip involved a failed border crossing into the United States, overnight stays with relatives and friends of family and friends. 

The impetus for the trip in 1937 was to obtain work – on a relative’s farm.  Their father’s farm (Kindersley, Saskatchewan) could not support both brothers in the midst of a depression peppered with no rain and little financial resources.

The adventure was a true adventure.  Their venture took them into trials and testings, but also fun and family connections.

This was a formative trip.  Throughout his life, my dad constantly had the view that “the best is yet to come.”

2021 – THE BEST IS YET TO COME

New Year used to be March 25th (based in a Western Christian culture).  A little interesting tidbit to start the day.

Of course, the tidbit needs to take into account other cultures who will celebrate new year at another time and in other places.

What a great privilege to be able to start a new year almost anytime of the year!!

Becoming a community pastor.  Not an easy thing.  Not necessarily a desired thing.  Not necessarily a matter of title.  But certainly a matter of time.

I am thankful for our local pastors.  I’ve known some of them for decades.  They love the people of their churches, and they love the community.  I would gladly stand beside any of them, and just hope to reach their stature.

We are a settled community.  There was a wave of settlers in the early 1900’s.  In these last few years we have more settlers who have migrated to this country and this region. 

Being settled as a community also means being contented.  Not all of us, but there are agents for various social, medical, construction, retail, agricultural/resource and spiritual needs.   Beyond these needs, there are those who are given to celebration – a much needed resource in the midst of a pandemic.

I am thankful!