Category Noticings

Noticings – March 23, 2022

NOTICINGS… March 23, 2022 Yesterday morning I stepped out on the deck and breathed deeply. It was a beautiful, sun shining morning, and where I stood it was protected from the wind so it felt (and looked) quite warm. Out…

Noticings… March 16, 2022

NOTICINGS… March 16, 2022 Two Sundays ago it was 15 degrees C and it felt remarkably like spring was going to begin. It was just a tease, of course. Intellectually we all knew that – but it didn’t stop me…

Noticings – March 9, 2022

NOTICINGS… March  9, 2022 Watching the news these days takes some courage. We seem to be lurching from crisis to crisis. On one level I’m relieved and grateful that the swirl is not directly impacting me. But the truth is…

Noticings – March 2, 2022

NOTICINGS… March 2, 2022 Noticings… March 2, 2022 Friends, it’s difficult to find adequate words to express how we are feeling about the terrible violence being inflicted upon the people of Ukraine. Scripture tells us that at such times the…

Noticings – February 23, 2022

NOTICINGS… February 23, 2022 Happy 25th Anniversary In just a few short days Faith United will celebrate our 25th anniversary as a congregation. 25 years is an amazing milestone to acknowledge. I am overjoyed to lift up this day and…

Noticings – February 16, 2022

NOTICINGS… February 16, 2022 “Get out of my face, go back to where you came from,” I was told by one of my grade seven classmates. I was puzzled and wondered what he meant by that. I responded by saying…

Noticings – February 9, 2022

NOTICINGS… February 9, 2022 Tonight a friend and I will begin co-facilitating an online ‘retreat’ based on my Presence Project work from my DMin degree. It was that work that produced something that is now familiar to us: Surely God…

Noticings – February 2, 2022

NOTICINGS… February 2, 2022 One of my favourite music groups in the late 70s-early 80s was the Little River Band from Australia. They produced one of my all-time favourite songs, “Reminiscing”. So, so good! I was really starting to find…

Noticings – January 19, 2022

NOTICINGS… January 19, 2022 I know, I know. It’s a month early. But I figured I’d beat the rush and go ahead and get the February blahs started now! There’s nothing wrong, per se. Life is actually pretty darn good.…

Noticings – January 12, 2022

NOTICINGS… January 12, 2022 My arm is sore. It’s because my wife and I got our Covid booster jabs yesterday. We’re both feeling a bit of discomfort, but of course nothing like we’d feel if we were laid out with…