Saturday, February 11, 2006
Travelling to churches...
This past week has been so sad. A friend of mine (whom I work with) lost his son last week on Thursday to cancer. The funeral was on Wednesday this past week at All Saints Westoboro Church.
Hundreds of people showed up and it was a very moving service. My friend's wife is a minister at the Anglican church (like Episcopalian I think), and the service was held at their church. She actually gave a small talk (or sermon) which was quite a mix of memories and hope for the future. My friend then got up to do a prayer, but actually read a few funny poems in his sons memory. He asked me later if that was shocking, but I told him it was just perfect and that Ian would have loved it. Ian had a great sense of humour.
The overall sadness and patheticness of our lives has been pretty blatant to me this week. As I meet new clients or talk to old ones, I just want to give them a shake and say "count your blessings". Stop complaining about who got the time share in the separation and thank God you are alive and have your health. Be here, right now. Forget the bad things from the past and move on.
Last Sunday we took some youth from our church to visit another church across the border in Canton, New York. It was really nice meeting another group and we hope they will come to visit us in Ottawa sometime soon. We had a great trip and they gave us lunch. Discussions included what kind of candy they have - they don't have caramilk or kit kats or smarties! We were thinking about bringing chocolate bars next time.
