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West Hill United -- Church That's Out There
Moved by a reverence for life to pursue justice for all, we inspire one another to seek truth, live fully, care deeply and make a difference.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 05:02PM In December 2011, KAIROS (of which the United Church of Canada is a part), Amnesty International, and the Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) issued a statement calling for urgent action to improve the living conditions in aboriginal communities in order for Canada to meet it's human right's obligations.
Read the whole letter here.
Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 01:22PM There are many who consider Winter a vile thing. It tears the last fluttering leaves from the trees, casts them to the ground with seeming indifference, if not outright disdain, and allows the dignity and beauty of what seemed only blessing for many months of the year to fade into dust, become mixed with the grey slush of urban street brine and finally, ignominiously, dissolve into the cracks in the pavement, the fissures in the earth, or swirl drainward with the stormsewer swill.
But Winter has much to teach us about patience, renewal, and hope, about the purpose in the luxury of rest, about the importance of a softer light, a cooler reflection, a simpler, sparser palette with which to colour the world. These things are, it seems, lessons nature knows well but that we, whose minds can overdrive on new ideas, possibilities, opportunities, are able to suppress, overcome. That, perhaps too often, has been to our detriment.
It seems that nature will have its way and that keen though my mind is to race on to the next thing, I am to sit and ponder Winter's gifts for a time, learn that patience thing, regain strength and energy, attend to this simplest of palettes as it offers me its extraordinary perspective. You, West Hill, have chosen to be complicit in this insistence and I thank you for that. As I settle myself into this luxury of time and rest, know that you are each in my heart and as I learn from Winter's deep truths, may you also.
Much love,
gretta
gretta Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 01:49PM Several years ago Anne Walker adapted the words of the West Hill prayer (written by Gretta and Scott) to music, creating the song "As I Live". Here is the long-awaited video directed by West Hill's own Joanne Worobess.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 01:19PM Please plan to join us
THE LONGEST NIGHT
honouring the deepest roots of our festive traditions
Thursday, December 22, 7:30
CHRISTMAS MORN'
a time with friends, share the celebration
Sunday December 25, 10:30