I spend A LOT of time thinking about this. And don't really have any answers...

I would like it to stop snowing. Please. Let's give spring a chance.

I am sorry and know that nothing that can be said really helps. Will you somehow rewrite it in time? Yes, of course. Might it be even better? Possibly. Do you want to do it (or have the energy to do it?) No, absolutely not. And herein lies the nexus of so much of ministry...

Maud Lewis painting of a white cat with blue eyes frowning.

March has come in like a lion - not weather-wise, but in every other way - and when I flipped my calendar page last week, I thought, same, kitty, same.

Nerdiness also confirmed when you make a joke about chiastic structures and nobody laughs.

I was there too! Great game!!

And other lies I've loved

How many days will it feel sad? I wasn't anticipating dropping all these big feelings into fall 2025.

I wish the power of friendship was enough to win the World Series.

I'm surprised about the decision to bring in Snell. I mean - maybe - but the Blue Jays have not been kind to him.

The Tragically Hip have some very poignant songs for this Blue Jays run.

Out Trick or Treating - at least a good number of houses have the game on and the curtains open.

This is wild.

Today I received a link to a David Jeremiah sermon, a "seasoned preacher," with an important message for our church, and I always wonder what congregants hope they are communicating when they do things like this. Sigh.

I am really, very sorry.

You are welcome for that 11th hour W

Two weeks in a row, I'm done and practiced my sermon by lunch on Friday. This might not seem like a big deal, but it's a big deal for me.

I worry about attention spans and the labour of learning. Every time I open a pdf now to research for a sermon, I get a message like - this looks like a long document, would you like a summary? If an 18 page article is too long to just read and think about for a while...sigh.

Sometimes you go camping in Jasper, and have a great day, but then a big storm kicks up and your tent collapses while you are chillin' at the hot springs and you come back to a sopping mess at 10pm.

I suppose every family needs a story like this.

All in all, could have been worse, but still 🫠

Activating auto-responder = vacation official

Kane traded to Vancouver and it's not even my birthday until Saturday!

Never let me go. My book club read it this year, we did a theme of unusual/unreliable narrators - but I had to skip that month so hope to read it over summer.

Which ones have you read, Jon? I have one on hold from the library - it'll be my first.

This is true. Losing together also matters. And hoping for the future - essential to human resiliency.

Sigh.

I still feel sad about the Oilers losing, even though I told my kids it's just meant for fun and we shouldn't let it bother us too much.

Life is already hard. Why add the cruelty of sports?

Oilers fandom = ascesis.

Hanging in there until the end only to drink the bitter cup of defeat. On repeat. Gah.

It felt very small of them. Seriously.

The tears have officially started to flow in this household.

It's been a lot of "clinging to life" and not a lot of "we've got this."

If those 3 times the crowd thought the Oilers scored were actual goals, we'd be tied! We'll always have that, I guess.