by Janice MacLean | Jun 13, 2018 | Ordinary, Reflections
A Guest Post by by Linda Yates North Face the North – hold your hands up in the air. In the north are bedrock and cold. The land of snow and ice comes down to visit us in our winter. Winter is a time of coziness, of creatures sleeping under snow, trusting in the...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 12, 2018 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
Recipes from the Family Table By Breanna Sharpe “Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.” – Bob Ehrlich I sometimes hear people complain that their parents might be embarrassing, or that their grandparents call too...
by Janice MacLean | Nov 15, 2017 | Ordinary, Photos for Eye & Soul, Reflections
Photo for the Eye and Soul Prayer Bench friend, Doris Henry of Riverview, New Brunswick, sends this picture she titled “The maple tree stump that defied death.” Doris writes: “This was the base of a huge maple tree in my backyard. I usually trim...
by Janice MacLean | Nov 7, 2017 | Free Stuff, Ordinary, Reflections
A special gift for you from the Prayer Bench, an Advent calendar. Each day from December 1 to New Year’s Day, it offers you a practice or gesture for creating hope, peace, joy and love in complicated times. Your Advent calendar is available as a free instant...
by Janice MacLean | Oct 30, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections
These are the thin days of Hallow’s Eve, All Saints and Souls when we offer thanks for those who linger with us and the souls who come to find us. Here among us are the saints-in-making the challenging one, close by or far away the incredibly rude one the smoker...
by Janice MacLean | Oct 4, 2017 | Free Stuff, Ordinary, Reflections
After many months of conversation and design, a website is launched. The Rev. Dr. Linda Yates wrote this blessing, and offers it as a model for others looking for a website blessing. Blessing of the Lower and Middle Musquodoboit Website (mvuc.ca) One: Gracious One,...
by Janice MacLean | Sep 22, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
The Milk House A Reflection by Cathy MacLean The little house on on our property was once a “milk house.” A milk house, as the word implies, was a small building used to keep anything that had to do with “milk” such as skim milk, pails,...
by Janice MacLean | Sep 11, 2017 | Free Stuff, Ordinary, Reflections
A few years ago I was leading a retreat and my eye caught the cover of the bible of a woman sitting next to me. It was a soft covered Good News Bible. A black smudge was ground into the cover. At a quiet time I asked her about it. She looked at It almost like she...
by Janice MacLean | Sep 6, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections
“Moon When the Plums are Scarlet” This is one of the poetic names for the September moon. It’s also known as the “Corn Moon.” The October moon will be the “Harvest Moon” this year, but this full moon, hanging close to the...
by Janice MacLean | Aug 23, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
Corrine Redden, a talented artist and photographer shares this photograph and her reflection. I remember when I was a little girl, I would ask my dad what’s on the other side of where the universe ends. He would answer, when we think of the universe we are like...
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