Minister's Musings

Hello Friends,

Fall is my daughter’s favourite time of year. She is a leaf peeper. I will confess that I am too.

I never really knew about fall colours until I moved to Ontario. I saw pictures, read stories, but never really experienced them. I thought it was overblown. This is because in Alberta, everything is green until one day in the fall when all the trees turn golden yellow. On that day, it is as if the sun is touching the earth, everything glows. And then the next day all the trees lose their leaves and it turns ludicrously cold.

Therefore, I am simply overwhelmed each year when the sumac starts to turn and the roadsides are lined in dark red leaves. I will gaze overlong at the hills covered in a multitude of different coloured trees. I have actually cried looking at a giant maple full of colour set against a dark blue spruce.

Truly we live in a world of beauty. When we take the time to notice it.

For the last three weeks we have taken some time to think about the beauty of this community. All of you are important and I want to express my gratitude to you. Each of you brings a perspective, knowledge, and skills to your volunteering at the church. It is a marvelous thing. A wondrous thing even. And I am thankful to work among such beauty as you bring into being. Carry on.

In Faith and Hope, Rev. Kirsty