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Lent blog

Freedom in Lent - A Daily Blog

Freedom in Lent - A Daily Blog

As has become our custom, we will be sharing daily thoughts via our blog for every day in Lent and Holy Week (with a bonus post on...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 8

Freedom in Lent - Day 8

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings A free bird leapson the back of the windand floats downstreamtill the current endsand dips his...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 13

Freedom in Lent - Day 13

There are some things that just don’t make much sense. Water doesn’t become wine, bread and fish don’t suddenly multiply, the lame...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 22

Freedom in Lent - Day 22

One of the encouragements in our Christian journey is to learn to let go of worry. Worry is that unproductive concern about what might...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 27

Freedom in Lent - Day 27

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 28

Freedom in Lent - Day 28

Lamenting is expressing the deep pain we feel at the injustice of the world, of life, of death, of loss. It's a profound and painful...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 29

Freedom in Lent - Day 29

 "When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel." ― Eloise Ristad On the...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 30

Freedom in Lent - Day 30

Today Today I’m flying low and I’mnot saying a wordI’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must,the...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 32

Freedom in Lent - Day 32

Some believers seem to think that faith is a closed system, a big block of truth to which we have to assent (or not, and bear the...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 33

Freedom in Lent - Day 33

There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 35

Freedom in Lent - Day 35

Many of us live our lives trying to meet the expectations of other people, of the society around us, and even of our selves. We are...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 36

Freedom in Lent - Day 36

In her book Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation, Madeleine L’Engle remarked that “all God ever wanted from us is to allow...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 37

Freedom in Lent - Day 37

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”                            Anne Lamott, Traveling...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 38

Freedom in Lent - Day 38

When I was very young, the things I made, the pictures I painted, the excited discoveries I made were celebrated by my family, my...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 39

Freedom in Lent - Day 39

THE FOURTH SIGN OF THE ZODIAC (PART 3) I know, you never intended to be in this world.But you’re in it all the same. So why not get...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 40

Freedom in Lent - Day 40

We are loved as individuals, loved by God for exactly who we are - not despite who we are, as some seem to think. Alongside this value...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 42

Freedom in Lent - Day 42

One of my favourite representations of Jesus is 'The Laughing Christ,' or more accurately 'Jesus Christ, Liberator' by Canadian Artist...

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Freedom in Lent - Day 43

Freedom in Lent - Day 43

There were two and a half years between the declaration of Emancipation of 1863 (as remembered in the US as 'Juneteenth') and the...

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A Courageous Faith

A Courageous Faith

Starting on Ash Wednesday we will have daily reflections on what it means to have a Courageous Faith in these times, thinking about...

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Courage to be ourselves

Courage to be ourselves

God loves you. God loves you exactly as you are, for who you are, not despite who you are. You are loved, you are enough. There may be...

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The Diocese of British Columbia acknowledges that for thousands of years the Coast Salish, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Kwakwaka’wakw peoples have walked gently on the unceded territories where we now live, work, worship, and play. We seek a new relationship with the first peoples here, one based in honour and respect, and we thank them for their hospitality.

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