Ash Wednesday – Lent Begins Today

This year seems to be doubling up on itself!   I feel like the new year just started and here we are barreling through February and entering into Lent!  I can’t seem to get my feet underneath me.  As soon as we get moving in one direction something else happens...

Developing Healthy Leaders

Each summer the ECCC offers an Adventures in Leadership program that takes a group of high school students into the mountains near Banff for a few days of adventurous living. They get their backpacks, their camping gear and their courage all gathered up after a couple...

What is Coming Around the Corner

This week I got a Christmas present in the mail from my mom.  I had known what was coming – or at least I thought I did – because I had helped pick it out.  In fact, I had even sent her the link to the page where she could order it and have it shipped to me.  She told...

2021 – Keeping in Step, Keeping Up

As my mother dropped us off at the swimming pool that day, as she did on many summer days, she said something a little different than normal and a little out of place.  Usually, she would say something along the lines of “Have fun, I will be here to pick you up...

Waiting, Wrestling & Gaining Strength

As is often the case with young men growing up in the same house, my brothers and I would frequently end up in impromptu wrestling battles.  Less so my younger brother – although I have some lasting shoulder damage from the last time that I wrestled “Big Bill” – but...