daily life as life goes on . . .

My wife and I have been doing house renovations for the last few years.  They are based in her eye for design and precision.  Walk into our house (after COVID??) and you will see beauty.Reading today (https://www.ckom.com/2021/01/11/sask-home-builder-predicts-drop-in-lumber-prices-this-spring/ ), I was struck by what has been voiced in quiet but urgent distress.  Lumber prices have increased by as much as 200 – 300 % in the last year.Here is one of the final lines of the article:  ““At the end of the day, the price of a home will increase and affordability will be eroded. It especially impacts markets like ours that are still very affordable.”

Check this out.  Sent to me by one of my Anglican ministerial friends.  In his retirement he hangs out part time at the Denman Island – St. Joseph’s Anglican Church. Just a little retelling of the Christmas story you might find interesting.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhduPJZ_lwg&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=HilaryPryor

To still a trembling heart?Our hearts tend to tremble when fear arises.  Fears take so many forms – some from trauma, some from physical cues, some from imposed affliction, some from self inflicted explosions.Be still.  Breathe.  Be mindful.  All good advice.  But you need to add the shield.Know that God is God.  Not just any god, or any invented perception of god.  Not just an idea but a God who is there, is not silent and enters into our world.Find the God that is fearful.  In such a way that there is nothing that God cannot do.  Nothing that God does not know.  Nothing that God cannot fix.Then fix yourself on that God.  Literally, be fixed by that God.And your heart will beat in rhythm.

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!