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So many good things By Barbara Wayland Now that we have had a month to recover from the holiday festivities we find ourselves looking for something to …
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1/30/15 02:39 PM
By Gina Gaudet While perusing an online liturgy/sermon source, I found a lovely essay on the lesson of fall colors: part-science, part-spirit and fully, deeply exquisite. It’s slightly …
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10/25/19 12:21 PM
There are so many churches! The church/denomination of choice may be based on family history; it could be a connection to a congregation (you were invited by a friend/colleague to a special event or …
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By GIna Gaudet |
10/28/22 01:59 PM
The Canadian May long weekend celebrating Victoria Day has just passed. Here in Point Roberts that is when many of our northern friends officially open their cottages. For us summer has …
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5/27/16 03:42 PM
This year we observed the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Could anyone in 1970 have imagined that despite half a century of Earth awareness, education, dedication and activism, we would stand at the …
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By Gina Gaudet |
5/1/20 12:06 PM
Fall Happenings at Trinity By Barbara Wayland Fall is truly here. Most cottages have been closed for the season and things grow quieter here on Point Roberts. You can hear the …
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9/25/15 02:37 PM
As I write this, we are just a week into Lent. Oddly, sometimes it feels like we are into our second year of Lent, as we still live with a degree of restraint and enforced quiet contemplation of some …
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By Gina Gaudet |
2/25/21 09:10 PM
As I am writing this, we are glued to screens that feed us images of the destruction wrought on precious communities by the weather patterns of an unsettled planet.
Weeks ago, we watched images of …
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By Gina Gaudet |
12/17/21 12:31 PM
By Barb Wayland Is that spring calling? Days have been warmer and the primroses and crocuses have bloomed, hinting that this side of the continent will probably soon …
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2/27/15 01:33 PM
Not long ago I read an interesting meditation on the circulatory system – specifically, how a drop of blood journeys without end from the center of the heart to the far reaches of the body, the …
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By Gina Gaudet |
6/24/22 01:17 AM
Having written last month about sound as frequency and vibration, and its effect on our consciousness, what are we to say then about silence? Recent events remind us how chaotic the …
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8/25/17 06:09 PM
As I write this, the rain pours down, quite literally in buckets, and Advent creeps around the corner, coming to light up a dark and dismal season.
This time of year, we return to the comforting, …
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By Gina Gaudet |
11/19/21 12:22 PM
August – the last full month of summer, which is often a break or rest time – is upon us. Soon it will be harvest time for later summer plants. And soon the return to schooling/learning …
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By Bev Mar |
7/27/23 11:55 PM
Easter is now celebrated by the Church as a Christian holiday in most parts of the world, but it began as an ancient pagan holiday celebrating spring in the Northern Hemisphere, long before the …
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By Pastor Jean Barrington |
3/1/24 12:31 PM
By Gina Gaudet The holidays are over. The tree is likely gone, decorations are put in storage, things are pretty much back to normal. In some church traditions, this time between …
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1/27/17 04:06 PM
By Gina Gaudet As we enter the season of Lent, let’s look again at fasting. Fasting as in deprivation, as in “giving up” something. Just what I want to think about as I finish off a …
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2/28/20 12:20 PM
By Gina Gaudet Just as we see the yearly passage of time as a cycle through natural seasons and created annual holidays, so goes the liturgical church. The church year actually begins with …
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11/22/19 01:09 PM
By Barbara Wayland November in Point Roberts brings lots of opportunities for celebrating. For example, although the Trinity Chamber Series itself will not resume until 2016, we …
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10/30/15 01:30 PM
The new liturgical year for Christian churches world-wide begins on Sunday, December 3, 2023. It isn’t a hallmark kind of season. There are no cards to be sent. There are advent calendars, …
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Jean Barrington |
12/1/23 12:55 PM
By Gina Gaudet Manifestation is a popular topic among some self-help circles. In the widening income gap between rich and poor, many look for a way out of that gap that doesn’t include …
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7/27/18 12:59 PM
