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Who has you?

One of my favourite authors, CS Lewis, once wrote "All these toys were never meant to possess my heart. My true good is in another world and my only real treasure is Christ." So, I think that when we reflect on the Gospel (Luke 12.13-21) we might want to ask ourselves a simple question. “Do we have our stuff or does our stuff have us?” I ask this question in light of things I am seeing and hearing in wider society about things like the Quebec Provincial government raising the amount people need to pay on their monthly credit card bills. If you spend $6200 on your Visa or MasterCard this month and you only make the minimum payment, it will take you 70 years to pay it off and you will pay the credit card company more than $34,000 in interest on what you borrowed. I recall also hearing about a rich man in Texas, who just before his death directed that he was to be buried in his favourite limousine and that a tractor-tractor full of his stuff along with the truck and the t...
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Life and preaching from the ditch

Have you ever been stuck in a ditch? There was this one time, living in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, that I was on my way to St. Jude’s, Dease Lake to do a communion service for the folks there, only to be run off the road by a car on 8 Mile hill and sit there until help arrived. I sat there for 2 ½ hours until the tow truck showed up. It cost me $90 to get out of the ditch and I was glad that neither the van nor I were damaged. Then I sheepishly finished the drive into Dease to let the folks know I was safe. Just on the outskirts of the community, I was stopped by the local RCMP constable, who was on his way to look for me. We had a rule that if I were more than 2 hours late, my wife was to call the RCMP. I made my stop at the house I was going to and then I went and got gas and a snack, turn around and drove the nearly three hours home again, passing the spot where I had just been rescued from. I share this saga with you because of the Gospel for Sunday is a similar kind...
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