A passenger train was creeping along painfully slowly when finally it creaked to a complete halt.
One passenger saw a conductor walking by outside and yelled, "What's going on?"
"Cow on the track!" replied the conductor.
Ten minutes later, the train resumed its slow pace, but within five minutes, it stopped again.
The same woman saw the same conductor walking by again and leaned out the window and yelled,
"What happened? Did we catch up with the cow again?
“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.”
- Rene Descartes
"Friendship grows out of the vulnerability of allowing another person to see who you really are beneath the polite exterior."
- Tim Challies
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, when we are able to go on a nice vacation or when we retire.
"There is a ditch is on either side of the path of life. Basically, legalism is on one side and lawlessness on the other. The path of life is between these extremes. Many Christians spend their lives oscillating between these two ditches because of their tendency to overreact to mistakes or failures (of either themselves or leadership)."
- Rick Joyne
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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