Reason or law will not end a conflict unless one side has their backs to the wall. By reason, I am not referencing our think faculty but our dogged attempts to define, categorize and hold to a strong, if not hard-edged, opinion or moral stance. Reason or law tends to separate right from wrong and […]
Feb 23 2022
Ottawa Protest Points to Challenge
Issues are hardly ever black and white. Yet, as in the case of the Ottawa protest, family and friends (riddled with confusing feelings) are being broken down. Hearts grow cold, and no one is listening anymore. I have friends who are pro-vaxers and anti-vaxers’; friends left-wing liberal and right-wing conservatives. Knowing what to say is […]
Feb 7 2022
Time Will Tell
A study once reported that if your parents didn’t have children, you wouldn’t likely have any either. Go figure. Like it or not, we have been undeniably influenced by the circumstances surrounding us since inception. And, OMG, what an influential two years we have all shared. No one was exempt., not anywhere on this planet! […]
Dec 12 2018
Spirit of Christmas
The bridging of the secular and the divine occurs each Christmas. Symbolized in how both believers and non-believers celebrate it. Of course, there are those who don’t observe. But in my part of the world, those who in some way, don’t, are few and far between. Naturally, we can’t all agree on every sacred nuance […]
Sep 10 2018
My Journey with Joy: A Confession
Over the last few years, the conditions in which I experience joy have changed. By joy I mean an elated sense of connection to the greater good. My joy has been almost completely connected to seeking some unique purpose for my life. It was the drive leading me to the priesthood. And it continues, in […]
Sep 10 2018
The Hungry Wolf (Part 3 of 3)
A wolf happened to pass by the lane where the three little pigs lived; and he saw the straw house, and he smelled the pig inside. He thought the pig would make a mighty fine meal and his mouth began to water….(from the fable, The Three Little Pigs) In parts 1 and 2 of this […]
Sep 10 2018
The Hungry Wolf (Part 2 of 3)
A wolf happened to pass by the lane where the three little pigs lived; and he saw the straw house, and he smelled the pig inside. He thought the pig would make a mighty fine meal and his mouth began to water…So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house down! The wolf […]
Sep 10 2018
The Hungry Wolves (Part 1)
“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion” (W.R. Inge). This quote has more then one meaning. For me, I am left with the question, “who the heck are these wolves? And how powerless am I against them?” It is implied that […]
May 7 2018
Hope Is A Change Agent
In the upper and lower atrium at the LHSC Cancer Clinic, occupied at its busy times by hundreds of individuals, there stands a tall gong and a smaller bell. Countless times each day, the atrium will be filled with their tolling. This marks the completion of either a course of radiation, or many weeks of […]