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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/10/11

Thanksgiving and gratitude

Today is Thanksgiving Sunday so it seemed a natural thing to reflect on being thankful. I found myself led past the usual people and things for which I’m thankful as I reflected on our Old Testament lesson in comparison to the Philippians reading. We find it easy, or at least I do, to be a […]

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2019/10/13

Thanksgiving!

 It’s Thanksgiving Sunday, at least in Canada, so it seemed like a good idea to reflect on being thankful . . . as long as the Lectionary provided an appropriate text. As is so often the case there was an appropriate text but not the obvious one. The Gospel lesson is the story of Jesus […]

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2018/10/07

Thankful for all those siblings

Thanksgiving Sunday, at least in Canada. As you know if you’ve been following me for any length of time you know I don’t pay a lot of attention to the secular calendar when it comes to what I talk about on Sunday. I don’t dislike Fathers/Mothers Day or any of the others but I don’t […]

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