One of my favourite times of the day is the blue hour right before sunrise. Most of the world is still tucked into bed and there is a quietness and stillness that settles over you, and it feels almost irreverent to make a noise and break that silence. Standing in the forest you can hear…
Tag: prayer
Focus
Where do you usually look during the day? Down at your phone, over the steering wheel out the windshield, at the ground beneath your feet, at the computer screen in front of you, off into the distance wishing that you could be anywhere else but where you are right now? Where we look is where…
Steward Your Season Well
I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes I wish that I was at another stage in my life. I regularly say things along the lines of, “I wish I were [fill in the blank]” or “If only I had [fill in the blank] then I’d be happy” or “Why does God keep me in…
Fearful Dreaming
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney We all have dreams of varying degrees. Maybe it’s a dream house, a dream job, or a goal of some other kind, we as humans are designed to dream. We aren’t meant to stay in one mindset; we’re hardwired…
Shifting Seasons
Do you know what I love about living in Alberta? Besides the mountains and amazing burgers, what I love the most about living in this province is probably the fact that we can experience every single season all in one…sometimes even multiple times a day! Now when you read that, I hope that you can…
What Wakes You Up?
What’s the first thing you do in the morning when you wake up? Do you scroll through Facebook, check your emails, work out, hit the snooze button for an extra 5 minutes? Most of us have our morning routine down to an art, whether the means that we roll out of bed 10 minutes before…
Return
worship noun The feeling or expression of reverence and adoration towards God prayer noun a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God These are the two spiritual disciplines that I focused on this past week. While they are in fact two separate disciplines, for me they are so entwined that…
