Chaplain's Corner

There is optimism that the profile of Spiritual Care is being raised in the Health Care System of our Province.

Many of you have heard of or enjoy the music of Steve Bell. A few months back my wife and I went to one of his concerts. Steve’s concerts are a mixture of music and personal reflection.

Thirty-one years ago this past May my wife, oldest son and I crossed the United States/Canadian border at a little crossing called Oungre on the North Dakota, Saskatchewan border.

By now many of you will have heard of or read The Shack by Wm. Paul Young.

I recently read an article titled “The Dying of Light: The Drawn-out Indignities of the American Way of Death.”

All the Christian Traditions (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant and Anabaptist) of our region have just finished remembering the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

It was a Sunday afternoon at the end of October, 2008, my wife and I were sitting in our living room watching Bill Moyer’s Journal on Prairie Public Television.

Last fall, my son, my wife and I were working on a building project in my son’s backyard. We were putting a roof of the grandkids play structure.

The room was filled with in excess of 230 people, the organizers needed to change the venue for they had only expected 40.

Melony is a health care aid and works in one of the nursing homes in our district. One day, after helping one of the resident’s who is living with dementia get ready for the day the resident looked at her with grateful eyes and said, “I hope you are always my girl.”