1 April 2020

Where does God fit into the conversation?  Love is all around us. We encounter the word incessantly, pouring out of our televisions, our radios, splashed across newspaper headlines and peppering...

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1 April 2020

From a messy pile of pieces, a beautiful picture can emerge. A valuable lesson to take into the new year came to me on a busy morning while clearing all the extra bits and pieces in a drawer of a des...

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1 April 2020

The journey from a horrified teenager to a passionate peacemaker. I remember where I was when I truly began to care about injustice in the world, especially when it came to race relations and the bro...

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1 April 2020

After years of seeking to understand religion, Mounib has found peace in God, and hope and a family through the Salvos. I was born and grew up in Pakistan, in a Sunni Muslim family. My great-grandfat...

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1 April 2020

The art of letting go. I’m knee-deep in stuff collected over many years of doing ‘life’. The task at hand is to discard the unusable, pass on the recyclable and pack the rest. It...

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1 April 2020

The solution to our problems doesn’t rest with us.  If you are tired, you can rest. If you are sick, you can go to the doctor. If you are struggling with someone, you can reason with them...

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1 April 2020

How confronting debilitating ways of thinking and making some changes in her life brought Sue to a place of acceptance and hope. I was born with rare deformity — the thigh bone, or femur, on m...

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1 April 2020

Maybe loving one another isn’t so complex after all. I’m an online shopper. Not always, but mostly. Which means that I possibly visit my post officer more often than most. Tammy (not he...

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1 April 2020

Sometimes the finest talents are those you can’t perform on a stage. I once worked with a guy who was a newspaper sub-editor by day and a stand-up comedian at night. One of my neighbours train...

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1 April 2020

Are you ready to put in the work for a new season of growth? Peas, especially frozen peas, used to be my least favourite vegetable. I hated the way they stuck to the top of my mouth and wedged in my ...

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