Moving Mountains

People often talk about exciting or difficult things by saying "it was like moving mountains." Well, I think right now I will say all difficult or exciting things are like moving houses. I don't mean picking up a house and moving it but packing all the mounds of stuff and moving it to a different house. Why would I say this you ask? Well we are in the last stages of packing to move into our new house so it is both exciting and difficult. I am at the point of wondering why we have so much stuff? Do we need it all? How did we get so sucked into being rampant counsumers? Will we ever get everything packed? Does it multiply when we aren't looking? Will I ever find things once we get to where we are going? So sometimes life is like moving houses exciting and difficult all at once!

Time Flies

Wow! I can't believe it is September all of you are back at school and summer vacation is fading fast......... Is it that time flies when you are having fun or that time slows down when you have to do stuff that isn't as fun? So what part of your summer flew by? What was most amazing? Here is my most amazing moment from the summer.

Yeah, i know it looks like a rather bad and boring picture of water but it actually a picture of the coolest encounter i have had with nature. So it started with kayaking on a river in Coutenay thinking we would not see much sealife. Then we started to see them, seals splashing and diving or just poking their heads up to look out of the water and watch these odd creatures floating in the river. When we thought we had seen the coolest thing it got better. The white spot in the water is a very large and dead Salmon being wrestled, rolled and eaten by a large seal. There were four of them each taking turns eating this Salmon and we had front row seats - close enough to them to get splashed! It was a moment when i truely realized how people could be so passionate about this world that god has made. I saw the beauty of the seals and wondered how people could destroy them? I also realized that if people don't spend time with nature it becomes really easy to not care for the earth because we stay far away ; we don't see the impact of what we are doing.

So think back to your summer.... did you find a moment to connect with nature? Did you have time that flew? Are you ready to come back? Maybe we can find some some ways to make time fly.