Thursday, July 20, 2006
Oct. 10th, 2004
So much the naked eye thinks it can see....So I am sitting here at my computer desk eating ice cream, listening to Ben Harper and looking at the view outside my window that overlooks a river, expansive mountains and the city that never stops. It's Thanksgiving weekend - and I have SO much to be thankful for. I could be one of those poor folks I see huddled in the doorways of shops on our dowtown streets, that will get shooed away by a blast of cold water once dusk has settled in. I don't have to worry where my head will rest, I do not think twice about whether I will have a meal to eat tonight, let alone a BIG dinner where I sit down with a family who loves me. I live in a country that is safe and a city that is considered to be one of the most beautiful in this world. Our climate is a calm one, rain being more of an annnoyance than a threat. Our homes don't get washed up with floods and do not get ripped apart by tornadoes, one after another. Free speech will not get me killed here, and I can vote. As a woman here in Canada, I have rights, I am a PERSON, a contributing citizen with the chance to get an education so that I may have a career where I can experience equal opportunity. So often I forget all this.Today my pastor asked everyone in the congregation if we have ever thanked the Lord for our bladders. We laughed, naturally; how odd to think up something so small as a bladder. Pastor Kevin reminded us once again, how often we don't know what we have until it's gone, or it simply no longer works. Thank- you Lord for giving me strong bones to carry me, to go on with my daily routine; Thank- You for my sight to see all that exists around me, to find beauty in what others might see as an eye-sore; Thank-You Lord for giving me the hearing I have left to lend an ear to someone who simply needs someone to listen; thank- you for my hands Lord and for this heart that lives in me so that I can be equipped to do the work You have asked of me, to make small differences while I am here.Lord I ask that I never lose sight of all that I am blessed with.
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