Conversations With a Chaplain “I don’t know where my anger is coming from.” Randy looked down intently at his French Vanilla Whipped Cream Extravaganza supersize coffee supreme as we sat at a Tim Hortons, not too far from his work...
A Three Act Play: "We are Wellness Chaplains" Act 1.The Shock The Chaplain enters the open plan office.Desks, computers, scattered paper.One chair occupied.A young lady sits at a computer with her back to the chaplain. CHAP: (with big smile and b...
Awkward Questions Mia, my wife, and I were getting ready to go to a birthday party, and I was feeling anxious. I knew that some people would ask, "Are you working or retired?" or "What are you doing these days? Do you ...
Grace & Gratitude Jesus' words, as quoted by Paul: “In everything I have shown you that by such hard work, we must help the weak and must remember the words of the Lord Jesus when he said, ‘To give is happier than to r...
Transformational Gratitude A story years in the making.... 2014 Looking a little like Jesus strolling down the path calling out to Zacchaeus, the Chaplain shoutedup to Big Ron on his forklift. “Hey there Ron, how’re things?” Ro...
Is Gratitude a Virtue? I believe having an “attitude of gratitude”, as the cliché goes, is a good character trait especially if inherent but in years past I struggled to accept it being labelled a virtue. Virtue to my mind ...
A Port Chaplain's Reflections After reading Psalms 107:23, “Others went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters,” one might wonder why people go out on the sea in the first place? Well, people have gone t...
Dawn of New Life Suddenly it dawned on me. I was unafraid. As surely and as steadily as light advances from the morning sun, the realization permeated and overpowered every shadow of doubt and anxiety in my mind. I wa...
On Thresholds of Light and Darkness We live life as a series of thresholds, different experiences that evoke a range of feelings and understandings. In the creation of our world, God established marks of separation. And God said , “Let ...
Better Together: The Story of Lazarus This seems like a strange time to write a blog post called “Better Together” – especially as we experience a world-wide pandemic that has forced us to be conscious of how we create physical distance f...
Coming Full Circle Sometimes life seems as though it goes in circles. For Bill Wong, a corporate chaplain who attends Vancouver Chinese Alliance Church, God has brought him full circle in his ministry. Bill was a profes...
Insight & Oversight: A Story of Blindness There are many factors involved in seeing. If we have physical sight, we can observe whatever is in front of us. However, we may see something and choose to overlook it—look over it as if it were not ...