For Your Own Safety

11/17/2008 – 10:04 pm

This past Saturday it was raining in Oshawa, and I went over to Shawn’s for a gaming session with Joe. When I got home, my SRS indicator was illuminated. If you drive a Honda, that light comes on when you start the ignition as a check, and in the dark you’ll notice how it is usually a red which looks you into the deepest parts of your eyes and burns it. You would also know (if you read the manual) that if the SRS light comes on at any other time other than at ignition, you’ve got a problem (follow past the jump)…

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I AM

11/16/2008 – 5:37 pm

Here’s a poem by Helen Mallicoat which Pastor Scott (from TCAC) shared with us today in his message about the reality that God’s kingdom is amongst us now (Luke 17:20-23).

I was regretting the past and fearing the future.
Suddenly my Lord was speaking.
“My name is I Am”

He paused. I waited. He continued.

“When you live in the past with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I WAS.

“When you live in the future with its problems and fears, it is hard.
My name is not I WILL BE.

“When you live in this moment it is not hard. I am here.
My name is I AM.”

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America in Oshawa

11/14/2008 – 10:22 am

Living across Windfield’s Farm, and actually on old farm land, has one thing going for it for sure…and it is nature. There is nature all around me, essentially…with a [horse] farm across from me, rolling hills down the street, birds (ok…ravens/crows) flying from tree to tree, plenty of flies (horse flies?) and…mice.

We’ve caught a few in the garage already, and then I issued a thought to my mom:

How do you feel when you see the mice caught?

And she responded:

When I saw them, I felt somewhat guilty. I mean, it makes me feel like one of those early-American settlers invading the land and taking it away from the Natives. This is basically what we’re doing…living on land we’ve taken from the them (the mice).

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The First Week of Many

11/13/2008 – 1:26 am

I didn’t notice it when I woke up, but I have been living in Oshawa for a week now. We’ve managed to scale down (read: unpack) at least half of our approximated 400 boxes as well as organize our rooms to a certain extent. However, there is still one box of food missing, which contains eggs and a mango pudding amongst other things, but we’re hoping that it was left inside the movers’ truck — it’d be their gain or loss, instead of ours :P

The brief week has brought a few new experiences into my life, listed after the jump:
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