Journey

Sichuan Reflection – When all is said and done

June 24, 2009

“Hey! Welcome back! How was your trip?” I don’t know how many times I have been asked that in the last few days. In a way that is the most natural question to ask someone who’s just returned from a trip. At the same time, for me at least, it has been a tremendously difficult [...]

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Road to Sichuan – Finding Redemption in the midst of Brokenness (1)

June 12, 2009

It has been a while since my last blog entry. In my last couple of posts I shared with you some of the significant events in my own life journey, including running my first road race in years and taking part in communion for the first time in 2 years. In the last few weeks, [...]

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Finishing the Race!!

May 3, 2009

Today I did something that I hadn’t done in a few years. I ran a road race. I first got into distance running more than 10 years ago. It was during a time of personal turmoil, and I needed running as an outlet to channel my pain and release my stress. I remembered running my [...]

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“You encouraged people…”

March 4, 2009

Yesterday I had an interesting lunch date. It all started a couple of weeks ago when I received a call at the office. It was a bad cell phone connection, and the person on the other end spoke with a bit of an accent so I wasn’t able to pick out everything that was being [...]

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68 weeks

February 16, 2009

68. That’s how many weeks it has been since the last time I was “in church”. 68 Sundays ago, I went for what I thought may be the last time. I said what I had to say. I drove away, alone. The snow. It came early that year. It was snowing when I drove home. [...]

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The world would be a different place…

February 6, 2009

Last week I went downtown to attend a webcast workshop. After sitting down in a room with about 50 people, I saw the organizers running around frantically trying to get the webcast going. After the scheduled start time had come and gone, the girl who was in charge finally came out and told the crowd [...]

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The dance

December 3, 2008

“We played the flute, but you did not dance…” Matthew 11:17 This morning one of my staff member handed me an interesting document. It was the script from the speech that she gave at her daughter’s wedding. Knowing that I have a public speaking background, she wanted to share it with me and hear what [...]

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Thoughts from a day of purging…

November 30, 2008

“Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body” (Ecc 12:12) Today, in preparation for doing some renovations in the house, we spent the day doing some much needed “purging”. As part of that process, Anna and I went through our collection of books, some of them from our university [...]

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Older….and wiser :-)

August 18, 2008

It was my birthday on Saturday (yay!) and we had a wonderful day! We went out for breakfast and had some REAL eggs benedict (unlike the ones our friend Norm had in New York ). We then took our little girl fishing for the first time In the evening we had a few close friends [...]

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Act of Faith

July 25, 2008

Yesterday I met up with a wonderful friend for a cup of coffee. She picked this obscure, tiny Chinese coffee shop that’s tucked away in a back corner of a small Chinese plaza. I had to drive up and down the street 4 times before I finally saw it. But it was a nice quiet [...]

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