by Janice MacLean | Dec 5, 2019 | Ordinary, Reflections
A Gentle Stirring of Life and Hope I’m haunted by this image. Before you read more about it, take the time to explore the entire image with your eyes: Notice the shapes, the different figures and symbols…. See if there is any part of the image that asks for your...
by Janice MacLean | May 28, 2019 | Ordinary, Reflections
By Corina Bolo May 11, 2019 This morning I took my first Stroll of this season and it was along some used-to-be familiar streets. I am staying for a bit with my Mom in my childhood home and this morning’s walk took me past the WayMarks of street signs that I...
by Janice MacLean | May 20, 2019 | Ordinary, Reflections
by Pam Harrison Today is going to mark a change of attitude in my way of walking. The weather has kept me from walking three days on this journey, I miss walking so much. I reflected on your words and enjoy the day, but something is missing. So I am going to “walk in...
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,...
