Advent: December 8
In 1843, Charles Dickens introduced the world to the character Ebenezer Scrooge in his novella A Christmas Carol. Over the years, this tale has been changed, such as replacing the role of Scrooge with a busy female executive or having beloved Muppets attempt to help miserly Ebenezer.
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Recently, my husband and I stepped into a new and uncertain season due to him severely herniating a lumbar disc and needing a total disc replacement. To relieve some of our nerves during our pre-surgical appointment, the neurosurgeon decided to use humour.
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I had a recent experience of going hiking with my lovely husband, Scott. We were having a weekend away in the mountains in Canmore, Alberta, and for Scott mountains mean hiking.
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Unprecedented times. How often this year have you heard those words or some variation of them? When the disciples were with Jesus in Jerusalem in what was to be the week preceding his death and resurrection, they were also in some unprecedented times.
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When we invite our two young grandchildren to our home for a sleepover, excitement abounds and the countdown to the big event begins.
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Charles Feeney is a rich man. He made billions in the duty-free shopping market and could have been counted among the richest men in the world except for one fact: he did not use the vast majority of his wealth to enrich himself.
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Grace and peace. As we begin our individual and unique processes of reflection over 2020, grace and peace would perhaps be the last descriptive words to show up in our minds rather than the first.
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The journey of Advent is one that can help us to reorient our hearts to significant truths that we know and have experienced but sometimes grow slightly amnesic to.
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