Lifted in Laughter

Ecclesiastes 3:1,4 (NRSV) Everything Has Its Time 3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:  a time to weep, and a time to laugh; I’m going to guess that over the last several weeks many of us have felt like weeping. We are in uncertain and tumultuous times and we […]

Getting Back To It….

Friends, during the first few weeks of Lent, while we were still worshiping in our sanctuary, many of you were doing some at-home bible study.  If you remember, people were given one of four different scripture readings and each week you were invited to read the scripture with a different task. I apologize, as, in the […]

Seeing One Another

Proverbs 17:17  (NRSV) 17 A friend loves at all times,    and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. The recent announcement by the Ontario government stating that schools will remain closed until at least May 4 was not really a surprise.  My hunch is that the reactions to this new are varied, and likely dependent on who you are […]

Light and Darkness

Today’s Worship Moment is by Susan Bragg. Thank you Susan, for your beautiful gift. We are certainly living in dark and troubling times but have faith that God’s love and light can overcome any challenge no matter how dark.  Light and darkness is often used as allegories for good and evil or truth and falsehood. […]

Apple Pie

Matthew 18:20 (NRSV) 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.” Like many of you, we are eating from our freezer. The other night Kevin found “Church Lady Apple Pie” (much like Trinity’s meat pies) which we baked up.  As I warmed mine and put cheese on it I asked […]

Gratitude

This beautiful worship moment is written by Marj Martin (and in-house editor Cliff!). Thank you to you both. Psalm 119 vs. 105 from scripture: “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” A simple prayer of Gratitude: Thank you I dwell upon The goodness in my life Thank you […]