Individuals, families, tribes and nations

The original unit of society was the family and tribe. Anthropologists describe the hunter gatherer societies as such.  

There is comfort in the family.  Similarity is comforting.  There are shared appearances and habits and customs. The tribe is a collection of related individuals grouped by family  is the tribe and above that the Chiefdom and then the Nation.  The chiefdom was an organization of families and tribes sharing commonalities.  At about a thousand there became a need for an administrator or beurocracy of some kind. The Nation is beaurocratic.  Which of course makes the indigenous claim to being ‘first nations’ questionable but superb politics and marketting.  

I’m inteterested in the comfort we have with ‘our group’.  I associate with others ethnically, by language and orings and by work and relationships.  I feel comfortable in my church because we are a liberal Chritian community Anglican and United Church of Canada.  My roots were Baptist.  I’m a single doctor , specialist in psychiatry and addiction medicine with a lot more paper trailing that. I feel comfortable with psychiatrists. I’m in recovery and feel comfortable with those who don’t drink and drug and share the commons experience of recovery. I’m divorced and single with a close initiate friend of several decades. I don’t have children but am close with family and in touch with a large extended clan.  I am bisexual by definitions of sexual medicine because I’ve had sex with both men and women. I’ve married and lived with women and loved them as intimates and friends which I can’t say I’ve known with men. I had wanted children and was deemed fertile but had relationships which were unproductive in that sense despite the lab saying I was fertitle and a girlfriend becoming pregnant and aborting our child refusing to have the child though I wanted to.

I feel comfortable with people who have shared traumas with me. Divorced men , single men, men who hunt, fish and sail and dance and cycle and ride motorcycles.  

I feel comfortable with most women and other men mostly when we are involved in an activity together. I played old timers hockey and belonged to a group of cross dressers and their wives and started an improvisation theatre company enjoying the arts and sciences.  There’s are subgroups of sciences folk and arts folk who don’t particularly ‘get along’. The university has this collection of faculties not unlike the military with its army, navy, Air Force and most recently Space Force.

The AA m moved started in the Christian Oxford movement but separated because people in recovery didn’t ‘fit’ or ‘feel comfortable’ with the greater group. Within AA the NA crowd separated because so many of the alcoholics didn’t relate with the drug addicts.  There are now groups for every addiction, the gambling addicts, sex addicts and over eaters all like their ‘group’.  The LBGT groups have their own conventions with Rainbow AA and NA meetings.  There are meetings of every language and Colour. I have attended AA meetings and Church meetings and scientific conference where English, the language I speak was not the language spoken.  Despite limited understanding I enjoyed the spirituality 

It doesn’t matter really in a mortal or ethical sense.  It’s emotional.  

In general people feel comfortable with their ‘own’.  People also feel they are ‘right’ when there is the political idea of ‘consensus’ or numbers.  The oldest law of the world is the Chinese Law of the Fish which says there are big fish and little fish and the little fish must be fast and numerous.  

The Chiefdomss developed Nations and the Nations and Empires and Corporations and other bigger and bigger conglomerations,  There’s comfort in being part of the group.  Adolescence is a time where the kids think they’re so individual and that they’ve chucked the ‘uniforms’ of their parents only to hare their own uniforms. In the church there as a major issues of the way monks cut their hairs thousands of years before the hair cuts of the 50’s and 60’s created sensations.

Today there is a term ‘bubble’.  This is an ideological term.  People are congregating in ‘bubbles’ created by ‘social media’ and ‘marketing’ and ‘politics’. These bubbles apply to religion.  Buffalo Springfield wrote a protest song in 1966 “for what it’s worth’ with the famous lyric ‘people carrying signs mostly say hooray for our side.  

The ‘either your for us or agin us’ mentality ‘I’m right you’re not’.

The trouble with Christianity and Jesus Christ lies in this quandary. He associated with the lowest of the low, tax collectors, for instance.  He was crucified by the government of his day.  The book Fields of Blood addressed the issue of political leaders and religious leaders .

Ecumentalixallism is the attempt to find common ground in all religions.  Job, the least taught book of the Old Testament has God and the Devil wagering and playing together.  Jesus wasn’t a ‘prophet’ or any of the silliness spoken today.  Jesus was a ‘servant king.’  A major disappointment to early Christians.  Herod was a child killing country king and Pontius Pilate was the Emperors man who refused to to help Jesus.  Emperor Constantine would stop the persecution of Christian’s and make it the religion of the Roman Empire.  

Jesus said “love your enemy’. This is not found in the Quoran by any means.  Mohammed wasn’t a warrior king while Jesus was not.  The Beatles song ‘Revolution’ was a disappointment to the Maoist aetheists who had just killed millions.  Jesus sacrificed himself  and Christians continue to be persecuted today.  

It feels good to be in a group, a gang, a ruling party, a rave, the latest fad, the idea that you are God’s chosen or just Godly and the others are ‘outside’.  

I believe we’re all going to heaven.  Jesus didn’t teach that.  He definitely taught there was heaven and hell.  

But we know today that there is fate and free will still and that psychopaths appear to born with an abnormal lacking in ‘empathy’.  There is clearly predisposition for addiction with identical twist having the highest disease correlations for alcoholism.  

I believe is love and fear and am thankful my teacher pointed out that Jesus said ‘do not be afraid so many times and emphasized faith and that God was a ‘loving God’.  

 

Journal - Burnaby - Remembrance Day

I only registered today was a holiday when I sat at my computer and saw Mary Lou the Clinic administrator had cancelled my patients.  In their stead wass the word Remembrance Day.  

I  bought a poppy last week at Lougheed Mall and have worn it a few days.  I’ve not been as observing as I have been in previous years.  

I called a couple of patients to refill prescriptions. Then I texted Laura to say good morning and tell her I didn’t know what to do now. I’d already walked Madigan and had coffee.  I tried to sit down on the couch and have another cup of coffee but I spilt it on the floor.  Cleaning it up I decided I’d do the storage locker run. I had a few bags of clothing and ‘stuff’ from the camper along with some boxes of ammo that hadn’t yet made it out of this Thor. I’m going to be crossing the border next month and am sanitizing my home.

It’s an expedition.  I

I’ve just changed my diamond earring and gold chains to my amber earrings and silver chain.  

I cleaned and organized my spice cabinet.  I need to do the same to the cabinets in the ‘head’ . I’ve been transferring and reducing items from my previous 5th wheel and now the camper. I’m also moving things from the storage locker back and forth. 

I’m pleased that I mostly took stuff to the storage locker. I can plan to reduce especially  with seasonal clothes only to exchange for and equal load.  I was glad to find my life jacket so won’t have to buy a new one when my inflatable angling kayak arrives.

I’ve been working on this coffee while journalling.

I’m grateful for the holiday.  I’ve been pleased to do some organization and cleaning/. The cleaning ladies came yesterday for an hour so the  baseline is done and it’s encouraged me to organize cupboards.  I’m loving my Thor.  All the living advantages of my ship but easier. I have tools and such in the storage lockers underneath and one day will got through those and minimize too. I’m surge I’ve got several wrenches of each size and a couple of drills.  I’ve keep thinking of making another wooden ‘box’ here.  I enjoyed making those in my apartments decades back.  That’s on the list with fishing.  

Thank you God for air and color.  Thank you for Love. Thank you for sensations.  Thank you for vision and hearing smell. Thank you for this world. Thank you for physics and chemistry. Thank you for biology and anthropology and psychiatry.  Thank you for my training and knowledge. Thank you for my skills.  Thank you for family and friends.  

I took Madigan to his off leash dog park today.  No friends but he left messages again.  Yesterday we walked the river trail an saw the fish still swimming to spawn. Much fewer. The run must be neiarly over.

 

Celtic Christian

Science rests on the three pillars of empiricism, materialism and determinism.

It does not claim to be the end all and be all. That is ‘scientism” the arrogant distant cousin of  humble science that posits hypothesis that are simply the ‘best answer yet’ 

Celtic Christianity rests on three pillars, the Holy Bible, the wisdom of the Church and Nature.  To the Celtic Christian the study to Nature, science, is Godly. The Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy spiirt is heard in the  Word and Life of Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Church and the laws of Nature .

To my mind, Latin Catholicism focuses mostly on the teaching the church and Pope and the Holy Bible.

The Protestants under Martin Luther first rebelled against the authority of the “church’ and the Pope, choosing to hold the Holy Bible as higher. 

Evangelical Christians and Fundamentalists today continue that tradition focusing primarily on the teachings of Jesus Christ recorded in the four Gospels.  

Spiritual Christianity which historically was called ‘Christian’s Mysticism’ maintains that Jesus Christi, though he physically died on the cross continues to speak through the Holy Spirit to his followers.  These saints, the first, perhaps St. Paul, have continued to expand on the apostolic teachings. The Church, that congregations of Christians has continued to issue Creeds.  Just as Luther and the Protestants split from the authority of the Pope, who is a leader of a secular kingdom, the Vatican, so the Orthodox Church split and followed the authority of the Creeds.  

The direct contact with Jesus Christ or God is through prayer which is said to be talking with God while meditation is listening to God.  Celts are said to be ‘Fay’ or ‘touched’ and like the prophets of the Old Testament live in a miraculous world where all is possible with God.  Even Jesus says that with faith that is so. Manifestation is the physical experience of God apparently ‘outside’ the laws of nature.  

Despite decades of scientific education at the highest level and working as physician and scientist I have experienced miracles and encounters with the divine.  

When I studied Hebrew and biblical translations I was fascinated by the historical age, and locale and biases that were embedded in the final drafts.  For instance, the concept of time in Aramaic Hebrew, language from an agricultural age, is given as a ‘long time’.  The word ‘infinity’ as we speak of it today is a product of mathematics and the time of Descartes.  So an interpretation of time for ‘hell’ as punishment might be for a ‘long time’ versus for ‘infinity’.  

Your God is too small, a tiny book by Phillips challenges us all to expand our consciousness to love as Jesus did God is omniscient and omnipotent. Asked to sum of his teaching he said ‘Love God and Love your neighbour as yourself”.  

Sinner’s judging sinners for sinning diffferently

I’ve been thinking abut “Sinner’s judging sinners for sinning differently.:”. 

The sins are 

Pride - this remains the principal and most prevalent sin.  Aetheists are a primary example abut most Christians are strunggling with this if they are aware.  The modern term in ‘narcissism’.  In psychiatric ‘personality traits’ being narcissistic is ‘good’ but being a narcissist is ‘bad’.  An old Scottish saying is a man must have a good report of him. High self esteem is not self centredness perse.  Arrogance is worst.  Yet Jung pointed out the Shadow being the part of oneself that doesn’t recognize themselves in the negativity of others.

Mathew in the Bible said “judge not lest you be judged’

Yet we judge daily by ‘discernment’.  We do not have kiss crocodiles no matter how cute they appear especially to young intellectuals with no life skills or the girls.

Instead of talking about pride Christians go on and on about sex and homosexuality and transexuality.  Jesus never spoke about premarital sex, homosexuality, masturbation, pornography or contraception.  By contrast Jesus spoke more frequently about money, power, hypocrisy, greed and care for the vulnerable

Gluttony - we have an epidemic of gluttony today but instead .  We always joked about the Obese Church Ladies judging and gossiping about the “hot” slim cuties and those who drank.  We now know a great deal about obesity and its link to cancer and its effect on longevity. 

Sloth - the common tendency today is to focus on ‘sins of commission’.  I didn’t vote for Trudeau.  I voted for the alternative but I certainly didn’t vote for Trudeau and their mass migration of people who were anti women’s liberation and suffragetism.

The equally important consideration is ‘sins of omission’.  Canada is know for its apathy just as the asylums are.  

Envy - Thomas Sowell says that this sin has been institutionalized into the DEI movement.  Life is unfair and the anti meritocracy movement and all these other ‘free stuff’ fads are simply responding to envy. My friend says I’d what someone has but I don’t want to do the work to get it.  That’s Sloth coupled with envy.

Avarice - this is also institutionalized today by Hollywood, Trudeau and the Kardasians.  It is the greed for wealth and material gain. 

Jesus actually  tells a story of a rich man who wanted to join him and his follower but turned away when he was told to give up his wealth and status first. The key teaching of the bible was Jesus’ saying it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven,.’

Wrath - anger , rage and hatred are not much talked about by Jesus who has his own issues. Bertrand Russell the great aetheist philosopher wrote a treatise ‘why I am not a Christian’ and spoke to this issue with Jesus.  I attend church regularly and confess that I miss the sermons of old where there was more Biblical discussion rather than the soft, ‘mothering’ or ‘parenting’ marketing that goes on so often today.  I studied theology and even in theological school watched my favourite professions struggling with ‘ideas’ that remained ‘alien’ to the best of societies.

“Hate speech” laws are the best example of the entrenchment  of ‘hate’ .  Hate is fear and sadly the archaic unscientific illiterate legal system is primarily focused on pride and power. Steal a little and they put you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.  The law’s first job is to protect the king and status quo.  To have change at the political level one leverages ‘fear’ and ‘hate’.  So it’s okay to ‘fear and hate’ your ‘enemy despite the teachings to ‘love your enemy’.  So hate the homosexual or fear the homosexual or hate the Christian or fear the Christian.  There is a whole discussion of what is appropriate fear and what is not and yet it’s all gone now as ‘name calling’ (ad hominem) passes as intelligence.  

Lust is a sin but that is like the other sins critical for removing ‘God’ from the equation.  I do enjoy Pearl broadcasts because she looks at the sexual failures of Christianity as points to the fridgidity of women. So many sexless marriages and control and proud women in the Christian bedrooms.  So what is the attraction to Islam for young men.  Angry hateful feminist Christian’s judgemental prudes or sex slaves. Even Paul encourage sex slaves.  The mothers of the British empire said ‘lie back and think of England’.  Divorce is a big a party for the women and ‘standing’ together as the idea that women ‘don’t lie about sex’.  This is the statement of Canada’s top authority.  Not because it was politically correct but because she was ‘psychotc’ and delusional and no lone called her. Thankfully a brilliant woman wrote ‘who stole feminism’ addressing the hijacking’s of the women’s movement by the marxists communists who thrive on hate and fear and demand the world be seen as ‘oppressed and oppressors’.  So here we have ‘toxic masculinity’ and no ‘toxic feminity’ so it’s no enlightenment but what we learned in the 60’’s ‘people carrying signs, mostly say hoorah’ for our side’. 

Scape gloating works with majority and minority groups.  The real threat is individualism of communism and aetheism versus the family, the cornerstone of the society since Indo-European languages began.  

 

Journal - Burnaby - Nov. 9, 2026

Thank you for this day Lord. Thank you for Madigan, family, and friends. Thank you for my work and service.  Help me be a better person each day. Help me overcome my character defects. 

Thank you for the adventure.

Laura texted and she’s waiting for the light to come so she can walk her the dog she is sitting. I’m waiting to walk Madigan too.  We don’t like the dark in the morning. I like the heat and dry down south but remember er the short days there too.  Here it’s exciting as the days grow longer in spring.  

This is all God’s creation.  I think I was most impressed by the wonder and scale when I first looked at pond water through my microscope as a child. So much complexity.  God is great. I love Phillips book, Your God is too small.  

Each day I wake up and the new program has been be4en installed and runs till i go to sleep.  There’s God time which is really big and my little time.  I liked listening to the fellow studying fruit flies and the DNA changes in a day life of a fruit fly.  

Maija had her 97 yo birthday.  Vecsmamin lived to be over 100.  Dad lived to be 94 but Mom ahd died 5 years before and he was anxious and lonely after she was gone.  I have felt a hollow emptiness alone at sea a thousand miles from the nearest.  God is what fills the space and is also the space.  I remember discussing gravity in San Francisco and how little we knew.  Watching the Sufi’s dance I thought I grasped something in the movement.  

I need the light to see where Madigan poops to pick it up in a baggy.  I take a head lamp to see for that task in the dark.  I liked walking with my cat Moon in the woods.  

Politics will come into the world when I open Facebook and X.  Here there is peace.  I don’t even hear the traffic just the sound of the heater fan.  There’s the train tracks near by with trains passing several times a day. The coffee is good. I’ve had eye vitamins and ibuprofen and zinc and Vitamin B12.  I’ve fish oil but today had the Cumin anti inflammatory and tsp of apple cider vinegar with the morning orange juice.  I need more baby ASA. I used the British Rose butter.  It’s almost light .  Shooting light. I could recognize horns almost.  I’m still enjoying the coffee. Laura texted me that she had learned how to use the coffee machine so was having coffee too.

It’s a my Monday Fast Day.  

I would know you better God. I have the sense that you are present but I would see and feel you more clearly.  I would experience your joy more full.  I would Grok you as they said in Stranger in a Strange land.

I’m passing through . I’m born alone and die alone and was blessed to have the love and care of my parents,brother, family, aunts.  I think of Adell and the nephews and wish Ron was here to see the great nephews and great neice.  I could be closer but fear that all I’ve seen and done and attracted and attract might influence. I stay away from innocent and feel like warriors must always have felt. I have lost my innocence, known evil and fought evil and yet All is God and there’s a zen or presence that’s known only when you’ve been in the depth. The Long Dark Night of the Soul.  I’m blessed today and thankful for the grace of God. Thank you Jesus. 

These a little pink in the sky at the edge of the grey clouds 

I just read Jesus saying in the Holy Bible, “I am in the father and the father is in me”.  I am like a digital program in the digital hologram. I am the same ‘code’ as the father.  God said “I am”.  This ‘being news’ is me and God.  We are God stuff, star dust and co creators, the Word.  

Thank you Jesus. Thank you God . There’s is enough light to walk Madigan. Now,. 

Sexuality and Hetero, Homo, Bi, etc

Sexuliaty is defined by DNA.  It’s called the genotype in comparison to phenotype defines appearance.  There’s an X and Y Chromosome.  XX is female. XY is male.  There are rare exceptions.  XO is a female person and XXY is a male person.  Hormones subsequently affect the phenotypic expression of the genes.  These changes occur at adolescence.  Pre pubescent children are considered before child bearing age.  Pubescence is the biological shift to adulthood.  

Hermaphrodites exist but are also rare.  Without testosterone, an XY genetic individual will remain appearing XX female.  Hermaphroditism and Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Domurst Dreger is the essential primer or any biological discussion of sexuality and gender .  Gender is another term for the phenotypic expression of sex and sexuality. 

Child bearing was normal, natural and desired until the last hundred years or more or less.  Children were the workforce and force for war.  More children, more wealth and more success in defense and war.  

The Central unit of society especially Indo European was the ‘family’ , father and mother and children.  Alternatively other societies and cultures preferred the ‘big chief’ where successful men had multiple wives and concubines and slaves.  The family unit was not as central to many Asian and African and tribal societies.  To appreciate the variety in this regard one should read anthropology.  Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel, The Fates of Human Society and the World Until Yesterday , What Can We Learn from Traditional Society’s consider be considered the essential primer regarding family, society, reproduction and sexuality from a social perspective.

Heterosexuality refers to sexual coupling between male and female with the possibility of reproduction.  Historically there are questions about when primitive man ‘knew’ that intercourse was associated with pregnancy.  Hunter and gatherer society likely did but might not. There is certainty that herding society did know.  It is wise though not to assume such details.  Anthropomorphism is the tendency to judge others and the past based on our own perspective and experience. It’s rife. Generalization is too.  People commonly extrapolate from their own experience whereas scientists try to be objective as opposed to subjective.  Objectivity is mostly impossible in the social sciences which is not surprising given that the observer can effect the nature of a particle and wave in physics experiments.  The attempt is made and today we benefit from such rigorous researc.

Homosexuality refers to sexual coupling between the same sex individuals. Mostly female to female is called Lesbianism whereas Male to male is called homosexuality.  Reproduction doesn’t occur and that’s essential to understanding morality and social stigma.

Sex and reproduction were related to wealth and defense and acquisition.

There is a great history of the ‘getting’ the prize bull to reproduce.  Aggie students competed seriously with who could get the bull to have sex how many times. Bigger bulls produced bigger cattle so there is always an effort to increase the herd profit with breeding. Bulls may be sexually lazy or unattractive to a ranchers cows. They have real personality.  Bulls were rented by hours and days.  To understand how important this was ranchers eventually chose to masturbate the bull to spread his seed to the cow rather than depend on appearance and attraction.  Today artificial insemination is the norm.  

  Lesbianism isn’t as politically significant as homosexuality simply because women could be forced to have intercourse and reproduce and still are today. Men on the other hand were much more susceptible to ‘interests’. .  

Bisexuality refers to the sexual coupling with either sex.  

Bisexxuliaty is much more common and historically significant in this regard.  Homosexuality wasn’t the issue that exclusivity was.  In society where the king must produce an heir ‘value’ was defined for women in reproductive competence and in men as his ability to ‘sire’ .  The social history we know is often from the upper classes, kings and queens , rather than the peasants 

Today men who prefer sex exclusively with other men is maybe 3 % of the population.  There’s a lot of team switching that goes on.  

Unwanted pregnancies were always a concern given the prescience of ‘chastity belts’ and ‘monogamy’ nad the ruler wanting a son that looks like him not like the gardener.  Also givens heirs and heiress’s the great warrior king didn’t want his wife producing a ‘tiny Tim’ musically gifted child if he couldn’t defend the kingdom.  Abortions are evidenced by a history of means.  Children were always good but not out of wedlock.  Sickly children were killed.  Only in the last generation was the ‘one child’ family even an ‘idea’’

1952 the invention the invention of the birth control pills. Early use of the condom dates back to 3000 BC and King Minos of Crete.  Mutual; masturbation, thigh sex,  Oral and Anal Sex, and rhythm method were all ancient means to avoid reproduction.  Slave girls and boys and servants were also available. 

All of this changed with industrialization in the 19ths century.  Industrialization resulted in profits being made by machines rather than by people.  The very concept of ‘overpopulation’ is a 19th century concept.  Malthus pointed out that populations were kept in cheque by starvation , disease and war.  With industrialization smaller families were more successful.  

Today identity ias defined for some by their sexual preference as might a person who teaches be called a ‘teacher’ regardless of whether that person only teaches or always teaches.   Sexuality became a political unit with the legalization and illegalization of sex..

Pierre Trudeau famously said that the State has no place in the bedrooms of the citizens which result in the legal system and court jumping in to take up the space once decided by democracy or whatever.  Sex is the great industry of the legal system.  Today Sex is business.  

Transexualism is the most recent of variations.  Transexualism refers to ‘phenotype’ not genotype.  Male to female is an XY who presents as XX but every cell in the body remains XY even with hormones.  

Cross dressing  and transvestism is ancient.  There are references to female warriors in Viking times and boudache,femine men in tribal society.  Today 90% or more cross dressers are heterosexual . It’s a ‘kink’ or ‘fetish’.  

Transexuals are different from ‘drag queens’. Drag queens ‘mock’ females whereas MtoF could be seen as ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  Psychologically there’s many factors involved.  

The biggest shift prior to Transexualsim was the shift from family to ‘individualissm’. Individuals today make ‘choices’ and the unit of much of society is the ‘individual’ rather than the family or ‘tribe’.  

Remembrance Sunday, St. Barnabus Anglican Churh,

I was glad to be in church today.  Dad was  Royal Canadian Air Force and served in WWII.  Remembrance Day was very special for him and his fellow vets.    I remember as a child in grade school, reciting Flanders Fields.   I bought a poppy yesterday from one of the cadets.  Our new Curate Rev. Matthew Nichiporuk gave a tremendous service speaking of remembrance and resurrection.  We are a people that believe that Jesus conquered death and that we as Christians will continue after death.  

It’s sad that our government  is leaning towards communism and Islam. They have outlawed Christian pastors from Remembrance Day services .  Hundreds of church’s have been taken by arson in Canada and the government does nothing. Meanwhile our Prime Minister celebrates Muslim values being Canadian values even as King Charles the head of the Anglican Church similarly celebrates Islam.  Even the Pope speaks highly of Islam.  It’s like the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan for annihilating Jews and Christian’s doesn’t exist.  Similarly the hundreds of millions murdered by Aetheists and their religion of Communism has been forgotten in the New World Order.   History is being rewritten.   But we still remember.

I remember my father telling me of his service against the neopagan Nazi and emperor worshipping Japanese.  He told me he just missed going to Korea to fight the Communist Chinese invasion. Then it was Vietnam.  I was a peacenic hippy growing long hair and  singing Draft Dodgers Rag in Coffeehouses.  Churchill said if you aren’t a socialist at 20 you have no heart and if you’re not a capitalist at 40 you have no soul. It was years before I’d learn that sentimentalism wasn’t wisdom.  The truth was  I liked the music and the women of the day, the wine and marijuana, youth and the birth control pill.  

. Years later as a doctor I’d want to join the military but my wife at the time wouldn’t hear of it.  Instead I served as a consultant to the veterans I heard the most extraordinary tales of courage and character from men who had served.  This was one of the greatest privileges of my career.  The men and women who served were  special, amazing humans wise beyond their years and humble.  

War continues  in Ukraine and Iran.  Communist China invaded Hong Kong and threatened to invade Taiwan.  The west stood strong.   This all continues and the government admits terrorists to Canada without sufficient vetting.  My father and his veterans friends said they’d never have volunteered when Justin Trudeau was Prime Minister. Worst that’s his father. They all rather liked Chretien and Mulroney and Harper. .  They’d have liked Mr. Carney than Justin but no so much so much Mr. Carney’s mixed allegiance.    Serveral of my most admired friends  sons and daughter who have joined our military now, Dr Lovely’s brilliant son and the highly talented Guppy daughter.  Our government now is  investing in equipment, helicopters comms and ships after America called out their ally for not pulling its weight. There is now hope  again for Canadian veterans. 

I pray each day.  I remember Mom teaching me to pray on my  knees beside her a the side of my bed.  I was five attending Sunday school, and Christian youth groups, camps and later adult church.   I liked studying the Bible with Dr. Ridd at University of Winnipeg, having Dr. John White as my Christian mentor.  Later I’d studying Prayer at Regent College  with  Dr. James Houston.  I was blessed to know so many outstanding Christians doctors, researchers  and specialists.  My gifted mentor from  Louisiana  Dr. Hank Olivier was Anglican and had the greasts sense of humor.  My evangelist missionary Dr. Willie Gutowski stood strong in his convictions . Hope Alive founder Dr. Phillip Ney taught me the sanctity of life and celebrated children , even the unborn.    Pierre Trudeau and Molachae  pushed Abortion with the same zest that Justin Trudeau pushed euthanasia.  I am thankful that Christianity celebrates life and love. I have truly been blessed to know the Christians I have. 

I have had a blessed life even when I complained and didn’t see that a Loving God was in charge.  It was always me playing peek a boo with Jesus.  Jesus is always there , welcoming. The door handle was always on my side.  

I am thankful for today and the service of the veterans who fought for freedom and saved the world from tyranny.  I am thankful for St. Barnabus Anglican Church and our ministry.and congregation. 

Thank you God . Thank you Jesus. Thank you Holy Spirit.