Just Your Imagination?

Just Your Imagination?

Tales of monsters under the bed and in the closet will keep a young child up at night afraid to go to sleep for fear of being consumed before morning.  Heart begins to pound and thump in the ears. The child tries to make sense of the dark and begins to see things that are not there?   “Mom did say that if I dared to leave my room before morning that the monsters under the bed will eat me, but she didn’t say anything about those poisonous snakes that now surround my bed!” The child screams for mom to save…
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Social Distancing Revised

Social Distancing Revised

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There is something strangely familiar with life these days with only a week into this mandated period of containment.  It is as though the world I lived in as a child in a small secluded northern town has merged with the world I have been living as an adult in the hyper-busyness of a large metropolitan city.  Perhaps that is what influences my view in light of this COVID-19 global pandemic when it comes to social distancing. Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash I grew up in a small town in northern Canada.  We were surrounded by relatives and those…
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You Have Fear…Now What?

You Have Fear…Now What?

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In these days of isolation, social distancing in attempts to contain the SARS-COVID-19 and COVID-19 virus strains, the trauma response for many heightens.  The first indicator was the rapid depletion in our grocery stores of toilet paper. In more recent days, now that most stores have a handle on the supply of toilet paper, we find that milk, eggs, bread and chicken are the items that many are hoarding as though it’s the end of time. To go outside feels like you are risking your life as a few on my community Facebook page are talking as though they are…
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How Then Shall We Respond?

How Then Shall We Respond?

Information these days travel at the speed of light.  Thirty years ago, adults woke up to the morning paper on the doorstep and then gathered in front of the television for the 6:00 nightly news.  Current events and concerns traveled by “Word-of Mouth”, which was said to spread as fast as a wildfire. The world seemed to move at a slower pace in those days as compared to today.  We may have known less about world events at any given moment, but we knew more about those in our neighborhoods.  We had more time to think about what was being…
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Dropping The Gloves

Dropping The Gloves

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Judges 6:25-35 Dropping the gloves in the world of hockey is a declaration, “the fight is on”! This kind of battle is wildly cheered by fans while players watch shouting enthusiastic support to their teammate. The fisticuff lasts seconds and then it is over. It is all part of the game! Gideon dropped his gloves the night he built the “Lord is peace” altar. On that night he broke down the Baal altar and tore down his father’s Asherah pole. The reaction the next morning was swift, “Gideon must die for what he has done!”. But that is not what…
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