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A New Year unfolds. Festivities wind down. The twelve days of Christmas are over.  Now the Magi are at the door, bearing gifts, offering worship, bringing the gift of love in the form of a vulnerable child of no fixed address.   The season of Epiphany arrives here in Kokanee parish. The global message of good news echoes out from Nazareth in the actions of the Magi.   Epiphany is a time of revealing , of unfurling the gift of the Divine. The Holy One is a gift to us: a gift n

The end of another busy year (are they ever not?). Can you recall all your hopes, resolutions and expectations back in January? In the blur of forgotten doings, how many conversations did you partake in? How many goals and tasks did you set and complete? This morning I ripped off the 337th calendar day – we’re almost there! Did I succeed in growing and being, rather than just doing and accomplishing? In the breathing in and out of my life, I wonder how many reports, meetings

This is the title of an Anglican prayer we say during both evening prayers and the service of compline. I find it brings me peace and stillness as I shift from the busyness of daytime to the healing repose of nightfall. This prayer invites God to enter into our space, to bring us protection and guidance as we slumber. I have prayed it so many times that the words often fall from my lips unthinkingly; my breathing shifts and life feels less complicated. I know this prayer so w

Sing to God with Joy and gladness, Hymns and psalms of gratitude; With the voice of praise discover That to worship God is good. These words echo Psalm 147, the psalm appointed for the feast of St. Luke the Physician and Evangelist, that Christian churches will observe this Saturday. This version, offered as a joyful expression of the hope and trust we have in the Holy One, comes from the Wild Goose Worship Group of the Iona Community ©1993. As we ponder these words, I wonder

The Harvest “super-moon” is shining on us. We are three weeks past the Autumn Equinox and I feel my life shifting into winter patterns:...

We Live Under the Same Moon I have moved around a great deal during my life, with the result that some of my closest friends and family...

Whitehorse, Yukon I feel refreshed and renewed after my annual leave in Ontario, and now I’m in Whitehorse, amidst the raw beauty of the...

In my daily meditations I try to look at things with a fresh eye, in the hope of discovering, or rediscovering, emotions and feelings...

‘Come, take my hand and be my friend: your health and hope I’ll gladly mend; your worth, though hidden, I’ll reveal, your brokenness I’ll...

Mountain Reflection ~ Sunday May 4, 2025 The tomb is open All has changed Life forever rearranged Challenging me: Living Growing Healing...

Spring Equinox has passed, April brings wild shifts in weather and more hours of sunlight. For Christians, our Lenten journey is drawing...

​Today I find myself slowing down, searching for calm and peace, for quiet space within the busyness. It is Friday, the fifteenth day of...