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Sabbath Reflections 2025-26
Thursday was the Ninth of Av (Tisha B’Av) a day of fasting in the Orthodox Jewish community as it hearkens back to the destruction of the temple and the nation. However, I remember the day, because Jeff, my husband of 48 years, was baptized on that day in Jerusalem in 1973. So in my personal story of life it is a day to remember with joy, though Jeff’s absence now brings tears.
This time in July also has happy/sad memories of my father as it was the time when he died at home with his family in 2002. Yet, in 1984 it was a time of rejoicing as we had a rare opportunity to vacation together in the Banff area before my brother’s wedding and Dad was having a great time teaching 6- month-old Joshua to crawl.
Life is full of these indelible memories that bring a smile or tears or both at the same time.
Looking forward on Sabbath to the time when we will have the joy without the mourning, and our tears will be wiped away.
Sabbath envisions this future time and symbolizes the peace, restoration, and joy that will come when Christ returns. This vision is part of our spiritual armour – this helmet of salvation – that gives us hope and protects our minds.
“To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.”
Isaiah 61
Sabbath Greetings.
How often the emotional landscape seems to mirror the weather. It has been a week with bright summer sun, glowing white clouds, dark grey mountains bringing a soaking rain and even a rare roll of thunder.
Sometimes life is just such a tumultuous mix of sunshine and showers, gratitude and grief.
Sabbath gives us a moment to pause, take a breath and put things into perspective. Both sun and showers are necessary, though both the heat and the downpour may not have been appreciated at the time.
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Canada’s leaders risk nation’s health in an “uncontrolled national experiment”
When I get up tomorrow, Wednesday morning, October 17th, recreational cannabis use will be legal throughout Canada. Curiously two days earlier on Monday, October 15th, the Canadian Medical Association Journal decided to play Cassandra warning in an editorial that marijuana’s legalization is nothing less than “a national, uncontrolled experiment in which the profits of cannabis producers and tax revenues are squarely pitched against the health of Canadians.”
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The One and Only Way to Stop Mass Murders at School
All this past week most of the mainstream press has been pushing the idea that what is needed to stop today’s school shootings and other mass murders is to inaugurate effective, total gun control—which is to say, to confiscate all firearms from the American public. The idea is “no guns equals no murders.” President Trump, however, has called for arming teachers at schools, and to more tightly control the vetting process for buying guns. He would eliminate some types of firearms that facilitate a mass murder spree, and do a better job with handling the mentally ill. Will any of this work to really change the situation on the ground? Frankly, at this stage of the game, I have my doubts, because all those suggestions don’t get at the heart of the problem… Read more
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Why the Messiah and Jerusalem are Stumbling Blocks to the World’s Leaders
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how is it that after so many thousands of years you can still command the attention of a Postmodernist, unbelieving global elite in the 21st Century? Could it be because the Biblical narrative that prophesies of something beyond the present world order scares the heck out of them? Read more…
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What is the most painful, unintended consequence of Martin Luther’s rebellion against Rome?
Tomorrow, Halloween, is the ironic date the world typically marks as the anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation that shattered the Roman Universalist Church’s 1,000-year-long spiritual monopoly over Western Christianity. The man who launched that spiritual revolution was the fascinating, but not always loveable Martin Luther. Luther was courageous, intellectually energetic, and sometimes even humorous. But he was also pig-headed, argumentative, egotistical, and an infamous anti-Semite.
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A distraught British Columbia father was pleading for the right and the power to force his drug addicted 15-year-old daughter into drug rehab so she doesn’t overdose another time and die. But the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, and it would seem the B.C. government, prefer less obtrusive ways, such as controlling the supply of addictive drugs and then handing them out to the addicts on a prescription basis.
The policy director of this civil liberties NGO, Michael Vonn said, “We are concerned about the notion that parents should be making health-care decisions for their mature minors.” He then suggested that forcing a minor into drug rehab is as much a non-starter as denying a “mature minor” (who they say might be just 12 years old) the right to access birth control without parental consent.
