"When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower."  ~Alexander Den Heijer

Lisa Janz is a professor of Archeology at the University of Toronto who believes in deep time, she is also deeply spiritual, and one of the many voices that make up our rich and diverse community called the Parish.  

Our practice of faith can be a set of activities that touch the surface of our lives but Jesus wants to get at the substance.

In the end what have you gained if you have it all, but it cost you everything?

We may numb ourselves to avoid it but at some level we all know the existential ache of spiritual beings who are trapped in physical bodies.

I cannot fix you, but I can help set you free.

She had been assured that all would be well, and all was not well - so she knew this wasn't the end.

We like to find God in our burning bushes and the parting seas, but God was in the bush before it was lit afire, and can still be seen in its charred remains.
  God was in the water before it was cut in two and remains in its reflection when the waves are reunited.

It can be comforting to see the Lord’s hand in the history pages of our lives. But God wants to be in the current events section too.

Sometimes we wrestle with what happened behind us, believing it's affecting what lies before us.