Kind and Generous

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This could be a worship song…

“Kind & Generous”

You’ve been so kind and generous
I don’t know how you keep on giving
For your kindness I’m in debt to you
For your selflessness, my admiration
And for everything you’ve done

You know I’m bound…
I’m bound to thank you for it

You’ve been so kind and generous
I don’t know how you keep on giving
For your kindness I’m in debt to you
And I never could have come this far without you
So for everything you’ve done

You know I’m bound…
I’m bound to thank you for it

I want to thank you
For so many gifts
You gave with love and tenderness
I want to thank you

I want to thank you
For your generosity
The love and the honesty
That you gave me

I want to thank you
Show my gratitude
My love and my respect for you
I want to thank you

I want to…

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you

(by Natalie Merchant)

I listened to this song today and though I’ve heard it before I’ve never really paid attention to the lyrics.  It’s a great song!

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Remembrance Day

November 11th, 2009 by Carol

I must admit that in the past I haven’t put a lot of thought into Remembrance Day.  It was a day off, a day to relax, not much else.  I didn’t put a lot of thought into what this particular day symbolized.  War like Canadians experienced in the two world wars is so completely foreign to me that I don’t feel a strong connection to this day.

This year has been different.  I just finished reading a book (finished it today actually) that is set with World War I as the backdrop.  It is set in Prince Edward Island, Canada.  The main character is a girl of 15 when the war starts.  The book follows her and her family as they are left behind while her brothers & friends go off to war in another part of the world.  It has been wonderful to read.  For the first time I’ve experienced (through a book anyways) what it was like to have to let your sons go, knowing you might never see them again, spending four long years hoping and dreading and having to continue on with daily life in the midst of this.

I don’t know how they kept going on, how they could get anything done when they knew their brothers or their sons were fighting in some major battle and you didn’t know what was going to happen and they were thousands of miles away and there was nothing you could do but pray and feel helpless and afraid and dread answering the telephone and dread hearing news of the war.  I know what that ’sick feeling in your stomach’ is like when you are dreading something so intensely.  But to think this was their life for four years?!?!  I can’t imagine it.

But I’ve had a little taste.  And it was good for me.  Remembrance Day means more to me today.  I think I’ll try to do this every year around Remembrance Day: read a book or a story or watch a movie about war.  It will help put things into perspective for me when I don’t have a reference point to help me understand.  And maybe that’s the greatest legacy that generations before us leave behind.  That war is something so many of us in Canada know nothing about.  And we can live in peace.

Peace to you this day.

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Bible Jedi Mind Trick

June 17th, 2009 by Carol

Just read this this morning…

2 Kings 6:18-19 (New Living Translation)

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Encouraged by Assistant Pig-Keepers

March 27th, 2009 by Carol

“Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do.  Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared.  To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.”

- Lloyd Alexander

The above quote is part of the author’s note to the book The Book of Three, the first book in the Chronicles of Prydain.  For those of you who have not read the Chronicles of Prydain, the ‘Assistant Pig-Keeper’ is an ordinary boy who has an extraordinary destiny, but he never learns it until the end of the series.  The boy often unexpectedly stumbles into adventures.  He is an unlikely hero but it is through his experiences that he learns and becomes wiser.

This quote really encouraged me today because I feel so much like an ‘Assistant Pig-Keeper’ these days.  I feel like I am called to do a job beyond what I can do.  Where I want to be feels far from where I am.  I feel woefully inexperienced for the task before me.  But I know how the Chronicles of Prydain end; I know what happens to the ‘Assistant Pig-Keeper’.  He becomes so much more than we would have ever imagined upon first meeting him.  So if an ‘Assistant Pig-Keeper’ can do it, maybe I can too.

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Canadian Politics 101

December 4th, 2008 by Carol

I thought this person summed things up very well on his Facebook group “Get Informed: The Pro’s and Con’s of a Coalition Government”:

“I feel there is a great majority of Canadians that think this is a bad thing or think it is a coup. This rises from a misunderstanding of how our government works. In the current situation in Canada, Stephen Harper is the leader of a MINORITY government. This means that 7 weeks ago the MAJORITY of Canadians didn’t vote Conservative. In this situation, where a minority government is in power, it has to work with the other parties to govern Canada effectively. This is because Stephen Harper or any leader of a minority has to maintain the confidence of the House. Stephen Harper has with his MINORITY, ignored the MAJORITY and therefore is ignoring the majority of Canadians and their interests. Not only that last week he wanted to strip away government funding of political parties. This would destroy nearly every party except his own. Does that not sound like a dictatorship move? This coalition was formed because of the actions of Stephen Harper and represents a majority of Canadian votes. Stephen Harper has lost the confidence of the House and therefore deserves to be removed from power for his lack of action in this economic mess the world is facing. This coalition is completely legal and represents the majority of Canadians votes in the last election. This just highlights the 3 major opposing parties realizing a need to WORK TOGETHER during these troubled times instead of Mr. Harper who has no plan for this country and no respect for any other party besides his own.”

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Canadian politics - history in the making

December 4th, 2008 by Carol

Even those of us who aren’t very political are blogging about Canadian politics these days. So I thought I’d join in with my thoughts.

I’m finding the whole process quite interesting. Am I against the coalition? No, not at all. I really really dislike Stephen Harper and the actions of the Conservative Party.

First of all, when they were elected to lead Parliament the last go around, they made a big deal about setting election dates every four years. Why? They said it was so no political party could try to take advantage of things and call an election when it might be more in their favor. And this was actually passed in Parliament. Really??? Did the Conservatives follow their own legislation when calling the last election? No! Their platform stressed more accountability. I don’t see the Conservatives showing very much accountability at all.

And when Stephen Harper made a big fuss about Elizabeth May being included in the election debate, I was ticked! It was under the same grounds that a former Canadian Alliance leader was included in a previous election debate. Why make the big fuss? It only made Stephen Harper look more like a childish bully than anything else.

I cannot believe the audacity of Stephen Harper to propose to eliminate funding to the political parties in an effort to save a measly $30 million dollars when the country’s operating budget is in the billions. It is quite obvious that he was attempting to take down the other political parties so he could stay in power. In my opinion that is bordering on undemocratic.

And then in the midst of a worldwide recession, the Conservatives’ response is to do nothing. Leave everything as it is. What? Bury your heads in the sand!!! This attitude towards the current state of the economy makes no sense to me.

Since the announcement of a proposed coalition government, the Conservatives have thrown out such things as ‘this means the separatists will be running the country’. Well, actually, no, that is not the case. The Liberals and NDP are proposing to form a coalition government. The Bloc is not formally a part of the coalition. They have said they will support the coalition government for 18 months (in non-confidence votes). There’s a difference there. And previously the Canadian Alliance (which many Conservatives were a part of) on two occasions proposed forming an alliance with the Bloc in order to form a coalition government so its pretty hypocritical to freak out now.

I don’t like the Conservatives. I don’t like Harper. I don’t like their lack of ethics or integrity. I’d be glad to have them removed from power.

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Headlines: “Woodpeckers Ravage Home!”

November 11th, 2008 by Carol

Guess what happened here…

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Why politics infuriate me

September 8th, 2008 by Carol

I grew up in a family that would debate about politics whenever we’d get together. I had no interest in it and all their arguing and complaining about the government probably lent to an indifferent attitude towards the whole thing.

But now I happen to be married to someone who loves politics, takes an active interest in it, and has actually volunteered for political parties in the past (ugh! I cannot get away from it). With this kind of influence, I actually found myself becoming slightly interested in politics. I even watched a significant part of the federal leadership convention for the Liberal party two years ago.

But for the last couple of weeks I find myself becoming more and more infuriated with our political system in Canada and cynical about democracy in general. Take for instance the legislation passed by the Conservatives setting pre-determined election dates. Harper said at the time that “Fixed election dates prevent governments from calling snap elections for short-term political advantage”. Nice, Stephen…nice. So go ahead and break your “high-minded noble promise” and call an election a year before the election date YOU set!!

Then there’s the Elizabeth May controversy today where the Conservatives & NDP threatened to boycott the televised political debates if May were to participate, and the media networks caved and agreed to ban the Green party leader from the debates on October 1 & 2. According to our ‘democratic’(??) system, every political party who holds at least one seat in Parliment when it is dissolved for an election is permitted to have their political leader represented in the debates. What the ?!#@* is this then?!?! Even Preston Manning ran in the debates when his political party had just one seat, and the Green Party is going into this election with the same.

I am SOOOO frustrated with our political system! What is the point of having a democracy when the leaders of our country decide to change/break the rules whenever they please??? I’m sure there are other citizens of this country who believe this to be undemocratic and that it should stop. But what can we do? Some people would say that we can vote and thus send a message to the governing party that their practices are not acceptable to this nation. Apparently that’s what Canada did in the last election when they ousted the Liberal party from political power and set the Conservatives in their place. And all through the 2006 election campaign, the Conservatives championed ‘accountability’ and held that their platform was based on “Canada’s core values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law…”. How ironic!

So it doesn’t seem to matter WHO we vote for. They are all going to lie and break their promises and we will continue to accept this deplorable behavior. Here’s an idea: how about whenever a political leader breaks the promises they have made they go to jail! That might curb some of this ridiculous behavior. The leaders might have to actually think and plan and make sure they could actually follow through on their promise before throwing it out to the public like a carrot on a stick! Oh, but wait, it would be the governing political party that would have to pass such legislation and who on earth would do that?! Because there are no honest people in politics and “the ends justify the means” is the reigning philosophy. Do whatever it takes to get the vote.

The only political leader who seems to have a significant degree of integrity is Elizabeth May of the Green Party. But in our wonderful ‘democratic’ system she is being shut out by the bullies on the block. No wonder I’m infuriated by our political system.

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Jericho is back!

June 7th, 2007 by Carol

Thank you, Beck, for this link. It’s coming back for another season. Yay!

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They cancelled my show

May 16th, 2007 by Carol

Jericho, my favorite TV show this past season, got the ax today. You can read about it here. The title of the article basically describes my thoughts right now: “The End of the World Cometh: ‘Jericho’ has been canned. CBS, you suck.”

I loved the storyline in ‘Jericho’. What would happen if several major cities in the U.S. were bombed with nukes simultaneously? How would that affect a small town in the middle of nowhere? I like the fact that it didn’t paint some sappy unrealistic picture where everyone would band together and everything would work out how its supposed to. No, it showed how humankind can turn on each other in the fight for existence, but it also showed the humanity of people in the midst of it. The plotline was good, the characters were great.

I’m still in a state of disbelief that its been cancelled. What a rip-off!

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