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Sunday Reflection -- I wanna be a sheep
Today's reflection comes to you fromMatthew 5: 31-40, First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament (Downer's Grove IL: InterVarsity Press 2021, ISBN 978-0-8308-1350-6).I've been feeling lately like my moodlings have had too much gloom in them, so I've decided to shar...
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Today's reflection comes to you fromMatthew 5: 31-40, First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament (Downer's Grove IL: InterVarsity Press 2021, ISBN 978-0-8308-1350-6).I've been feeling lately like my moodlings have had too much gloom in them, so I've decided to shar...
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Remembering 209
Imagine losing 5 friendly faces out of your life every week.Yesterday, the staff of the Bissell Centre and the Inner City Pastoral Ministry team gathered to remember the 209 people who died in the inner-city between February 1 and October 31. If you do the math, that's 5 people a week, more or le...
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Imagine losing 5 friendly faces out of your life every week.Yesterday, the staff of the Bissell Centre and the Inner City Pastoral Ministry team gathered to remember the 209 people who died in the inner-city between February 1 and October 31. If you do the math, that's 5 people a week, more or le...
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Monday Music Appreciation #18 -- A little Mahler, anyone?
My life has been busier than I like, which means I haven't been working at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music for all the concerts that I'd love to hear. That was the case on November 11th, when the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic played together.I spoke with a fellow ...
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My life has been busier than I like, which means I haven't been working at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music for all the concerts that I'd love to hear. That was the case on November 11th, when the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic played together.I spoke with a fellow ...
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A great opportunity
We're living in a perfect storm when it comes to the affordability of housing. Rising inflation, food, power, and heating costs are contributors to the fact that many people are finding it hard to make ends meet. But a bigger concern is the financialization of housing.As I understand it, the worl...
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We're living in a perfect storm when it comes to the affordability of housing. Rising inflation, food, power, and heating costs are contributors to the fact that many people are finding it hard to make ends meet. But a bigger concern is the financialization of housing.As I understand it, the worl...
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Working and praying for peace
Yesterday, I found myself on my knees in the square near City Hall trying hard to see through my tears as I wrote the names of 60 or more Palestinians who have died in Gaza. The oldest was 63 and the youngest was an infant, and as a dozen others and I inked the names of the dead on a long roll of...
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Yesterday, I found myself on my knees in the square near City Hall trying hard to see through my tears as I wrote the names of 60 or more Palestinians who have died in Gaza. The oldest was 63 and the youngest was an infant, and as a dozen others and I inked the names of the dead on a long roll of...
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Monday Music Appreciation #17 -- on a Tuesday because it can't wait
Something in me can't save this song until next Monday...
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Something in me can't save this song until next Monday...
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The hummingbird on my shoulder
Gratitude to Jennyat Hivemind Studios for my sweet little birdShe is the little one in Wangari Maathai's story, who sees the fire and does something about it. The other, bigger animals -- who are watching the fire helplessly -- think she is crazy as she flies back and forth to the river, bri...
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Gratitude to Jennyat Hivemind Studios for my sweet little birdShe is the little one in Wangari Maathai's story, who sees the fire and does something about it. The other, bigger animals -- who are watching the fire helplessly -- think she is crazy as she flies back and forth to the river, bri...
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Sunday Reflection: Two great commandments
Today's reflection is brought to you by Matthew 22:37-39. A statue from Gubbio(wish I knew the artist's name)Jesus told him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second i...
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Today's reflection is brought to you by Matthew 22:37-39. A statue from Gubbio(wish I knew the artist's name)Jesus told him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second i...
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The four-day kitten adventure
Late on Friday night, my nephew Iain was driving home after a stargazing evening at the western city limits when he saw four little eyes reflecting on the side of the road. When he stopped to see what was there, he found two adorable ginger kittens shivering in the cold.The question everyone who ...
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Late on Friday night, my nephew Iain was driving home after a stargazing evening at the western city limits when he saw four little eyes reflecting on the side of the road. When he stopped to see what was there, he found two adorable ginger kittens shivering in the cold.The question everyone who ...
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Monday Music Appreciation #16 -- Don't Listen to Me
I'm looking forward to going to work tonight because it's a Martin Kerr concert. This is my second musical appreciation focusing on him, though it's not just him... I love the harmonies of his friends here too. Enjoy!
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I'm looking forward to going to work tonight because it's a Martin Kerr concert. This is my second musical appreciation focusing on him, though it's not just him... I love the harmonies of his friends here too. Enjoy!
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Monday music appreciation #15 -- Danse Macabre
Have I mentioned lately that I love my job? Being an usher at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music (why doesn't his wife Harriet get any credit??) is bringing me back into contact with so much wonderful classical music!On Thursday and Friday, Maestro Bill Eddins, Concert Master Robert Uchida, an...
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Have I mentioned lately that I love my job? Being an usher at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music (why doesn't his wife Harriet get any credit??) is bringing me back into contact with so much wonderful classical music!On Thursday and Friday, Maestro Bill Eddins, Concert Master Robert Uchida, an...
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Sunday reflection: a prayer of lamentation
The news is not good in the so-called Holy Land. In fact, it ranks among the unholiest of places on the planet because of the things that have been happening to people there in the past eight days, and long before that.With so much history of conflict and oppression of different peoples over many...
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The news is not good in the so-called Holy Land. In fact, it ranks among the unholiest of places on the planet because of the things that have been happening to people there in the past eight days, and long before that.With so much history of conflict and oppression of different peoples over many...
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Monday Music Appreciation #14 -- Cavatina
After being away since I broke my foot on May 10, I'm delighted to be back at work at the Winspear Centre for music. And the symphony season started off with two wonderful sold out shows that included the beautiful "Cavatina" from the 1978 movie, The Deer Hunter, a sad movie with a very famo...
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After being away since I broke my foot on May 10, I'm delighted to be back at work at the Winspear Centre for music. And the symphony season started off with two wonderful sold out shows that included the beautiful "Cavatina" from the 1978 movie, The Deer Hunter, a sad movie with a very famo...
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A wild time
I haven't been very present here at Simple Moodlings lately because my father-in-law needed some help. In the last ten days, we took a flying trip to his home, contracted a moving company, moved him into assisted living, and made a good dent in cleaning out his house. He's making a big adjustment...
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I haven't been very present here at Simple Moodlings lately because my father-in-law needed some help. In the last ten days, we took a flying trip to his home, contracted a moving company, moved him into assisted living, and made a good dent in cleaning out his house. He's making a big adjustment...
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#holyroodbenchproject -- update #6 -- 6 years later
Come and sit a while...Six years later, our faithful #holyroodbenchproject beauty had seen better days. She's been sitting patiently through all the weather Edmonton seasons have thrown at her over the past six years, and we've really enjoyed seeing people (and animals) enjoying her...A neighbour...
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Come and sit a while...Six years later, our faithful #holyroodbenchproject beauty had seen better days. She's been sitting patiently through all the weather Edmonton seasons have thrown at her over the past six years, and we've really enjoyed seeing people (and animals) enjoying her...A neighbour...
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