What Kind of Soil?

Some of you know that during Covid I became a vegetable gardener. There’s few bigger changes than a tiny seed into a vegetable! Vegetable gardening was something I had wanted to do for a very long time, but I was always very busy in the spring getting ready for the Conference Annual Meeting, so it…

The Long Journey

As I said at the beginning of worship, the next few weeks are going to be focused on how small changes, changes that we don’t think even matter, can build up over time to make a big difference. James Clear, in his book Atomic Habits, writes, “It’s so easy to overestimate the importance of one…

Love’s Bright Star

Epiphany is one of my favourite celebrations in the church year. I’m not sure why, I don’t remember any emphasis on it when I was growing up… although I overheard references to ‘Old Christmas’ when we lived close to my mother’s family in southern Manitoba in a community that was primarily German/Ukrainian and Mennonite. Maybe…