The value of friendship

Today allowed a wonderful reconnection with my friend Doug. Now I noticed I have many friends named Doug. Don’t think it was deliberate, but it is what it is. At any rate, today Doug and I had a lengthy coffee/brunch together. Doug to me to the very trendy Westboro area of Ottawa. Our destination was…

A Pilgrim’s lack of progress, subtitled: why pray?

“Why do we need to pray if God knows what we are going to say before we think it?”  The question took me completely by surprise.  This was a group that had been meeting to encourage one another, to provide for ourselves a forum of spiritual accountability.  As the question bounced off the walls, I…

Time is limited

I have a friend whose Dad is dying. Their time together is almost up. He wrote to me: “Yes that thin place between heaven and earth, the spirit waiting to be released, signalled by tenderness (having been given permission to express, from vulnerable breaking down mortality/physicality). Personality intact but losing grip, Spirit preparing to bid…