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…

Sing a Song

I never had much time for Mary, the mother of Jesus, through most of my growing up years. Aside being trotted out, dressed in blue every Christmas, and I don’t I ever got to be Mary in a pageant, I don’t think I ever heard of her again all year. And the only thing that…

Mary Said Yes

Well, good morning everyone. My, what a fine gathering! Do you recognize me without my blue shawl? You know me as Mary, although I was more commonly called by my Jewish name, Miriam. And this is the kind of thing I wore most days, not the blue of royalty, although I am honored that I…