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Marking Time with Hockey Through my self-isolation period I have taken to watching old classic hockey games. I can't believe the memories and the times in my life that these games bring me back to.  I saw a special about Bobby Orr and was transported back to when Micheal Micallef first got me really pumped up to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs in the play-offs.(it was 1969)...........it was heart breaking as the Bruins beat the Leafs 10-0 and 7-0 in the first two games. I remember going into the living room and telling mom and dad how bad it was, but like most everybody else in my family , they didn't much care. But I was hooked , Bobby Orr was like a being from another planet and the game , my word, there was so much going on all at once ! I was hooked on hockey. When we go for walks we pass the house Paul Haddad lived in and I always recall the night in 1978 when Pauls folks were away and he and his sisters had a rather large and quite wild house party. It was my last
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Guns are only a part of the problem

Yet another mass murder in the USA. Gun control, gun control, yeah that will fix it. I'm not against gun control , but I don't see it as THE problem. There were guns in peoples possession in the 60's, 50's, 40's ....... - there were however also many more mothers raising THEIR  own children who they showed a caring love for  and disciplined with a passion and concern you can only have for your own child. - there were many more fathers who not only didn't run away from their kids lives , but helped discipline, teach, love and support THEIR own children. - there were NOT video games given to children to show them how to kill cops, beat old ladies, and rob stores. - there were not movies to watch that are full of violence and sex with anybody , as long as its not your spouse. -I've known many young children who in 5 or 7 short years have filled their heads with more garbage and crap then I have even thought about in my 55 years. People tell me "Tho
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The media is the tail wagging the dog So, do people really care this much about the football player and his wife or is the media just feeding it to us. Talk shows determine what the topic will be. Editors decide what the headlines are. They don't ask us  whats on our minds. People who believe the media reflects society's interest, and not there own,  are just right out to lunch. Nobody cares about the three elderly nuns who were raped and murdered last week in Burundi or maybe a follow - up on the oil spills that "destroyed the planet"  a few years ago.  We're all just waiting to hear another opinion on the football player and his wife? Don't get me wrong. The story does not completely lack newsworthiness, but how many people does it take to tell such a simple little story when there is all kinds of other things happening that are important.
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I think modern Christians in North America think to much.  Always trying to redefine or make fresh a message that doesn't need to be tampered with .  I think we become petty and judgemental over the use of words . I was listening to Francis Chan this morning  one message was - Don't Focus on the Family - the next was -  Don't Tithe . Yet when all is said and done his is the same message as before. It's Jesus's message. Constant reinventing of the same message is really tiring to me. I get it.  I got it a long time ago. Maybe we should be less petty about the words we use and winning arguements and more busy about living as Christ has taught us to live. I don't believe when Christ spoke to the multitudes that all who heard and followed were leaders. It seems to me that many were working class believers. Serving God in there humble and lowly or middle class lives. I feel like today's Church puts the burden of leadership on everyone and I don't think ever
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Staying within yourself, enjoying where you're at.

It's a beautiful day out and I just got in from playing my guitar/harmonica and singing some songs on the deck. I really enjoy doing that. I started playing my guitar in grade 10. It went really slowly. I would start and quit every few years . Often I would become very discouraged and give it up for three or four years at a time.  I'd hit a plateau that was beneath my expectations and I would just quit. I've never risen above that level , that level of  talent isn't there.  But I became inspired by , of all things, hockey analogies. Harry Neale once said something along the lines of " Bill Berg has had a nice career because he doen't try to play like Gretzky ,  he plays like Bill Berg." Or as Don Cherry so nicely put it  the other day . " Crushers who try to be rushers , soon become ushers".  If you're really talented in sports , music , arts or academics it will become obvious in a short time. Go for it ! (If  there is absolutley nothing
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Are We Getting Too Lazy Mentally ?

Now that I've been on the internet a number of years I am totally convinced that our education system needs to stress "source finding" and discernment , regarding real facts and internet viral un - truths , from kindergarten to the end of post secondary. I find it discouraging, even depressing that so many people don't care if what they just said to 500 "friends" is really factual or not. The comments on You Tube is a place I need to avoid if I want to have any hope in our future as civilised people. Am I the only one ?
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