Shalom

Privileged is one word that comes to mind when I think of the present experience that I am enjoying.  This is week two Arrow’s Executive Leader’s Program.  We’re on Keats Island, just north west of Vancouver.  I’m awaking to a wonderful view looking back across the water towards the mainland. It’s not the warm white…

When you don’t know what to say

Thanks for the call today.  Yes this post is for you.  It’s hard to understand how people react to grief, and when they seemingly have no framework of faith it seems they will believe almost anything.  Anything being that relatives of the past are flying above us, or that the cat is now an angel…

Anticipation

Anticipation.  That would be a good word to describe the atmosphere among Salvation Army Officers at this time of the year.  It isn’t like the days when we sat by the phone wondering if we were moving without any indication from our supervisors. Today, those who are moving are aware of it.  The anticipation is…