Everyone Plays

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I just learned that January 20 is being celebrated as the International Day of Acceptance .  Nikki, from the "Nikki and Sarah " post about Lily's first steps, has written an essay as part of a...

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It started out like every other 'last weekend before Christmas'. First, I remembered something that I had forgotten to do -- I hadn't sent Christmas cards to my family.  Some live in Newfoundl...

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A few weeks ago I wrote about Pies for South Sudan .  This weekend Belinda called me with a very cool update in the pie saga.  She agreed to write about it today, and permitted me to link to i...

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Last week the world learned that Nelson Mandela had passed away.   This morning I learned that Aldo, my neighbour, succumbed to his illness and also passed away. And then a few moments ago ...

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Yesterday I read a friend's post in which he explains that women shouldn't be in church leadership positions that give them authority over men.   Sigh. This was never an issue for me growi...

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Each Monday I try to write about the vision that people with exceptional needs belong to communities in which their God-given gifts are valued and respected.  I can think of no better way to ce...

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This one's big - hence the title.  We've set some travel dates.  But first, a review of the players: - Krista - our worker at The Children's Bridge in Ottawa - Poonam - the case worker i...

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Today I'm a preoccupied with a plumbing problem. Karen and I live next door to her Mom. That means I have two houses to take care of - for example, on Saturday I hung the Christmas lights and cl...

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South Sudan  is (still, I think) the newest country in the world. Christian Horizons was working in the southern part of the former Sudan before it became its own country, and still is present ...

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Each Monday I try to write something here that speaks to or illustrates the Vision of Christian Horizons, which is that people with exceptional needs belong to communities in which their God-gi...

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Yesterday I preached at Living Hope Christian Church in Scarborough. It's a little Anglican Church that meets in the gym of a Catholic school. They are working to better equip themselves to be a ...

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In my role at work I often have the opportunity to review files of people who need some form of help or support from others.  To share any details here would be inappropriate, of course, but ev...

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Last week Shakil Choudhury from Anima Leadership attended our Leadership meeting at work to lead a session on the topic of Diversity.  I found him to be informative, interactive, vulnerable a...

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On Friday, October 4, 2013, our case was heard in court in Chandigarh (not Delhi, as I had thought).  The report that we received was that it went as expected and we were waiting on a second co...

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There are a lot of generous people connected to Christian Horizons, where our vision is for people with exceptional needs to belong to communities where their God-given gifts are valued and resp...

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Last week I spent a few hours visiting with a number of people who work as Program Managers.  This coming week I'll be spending the better part of four days meeting with more people in the same...

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Last week I helped to lead worship at church.  One of the songs we sang was "Everlasting God".  The verse lyric goes like this: Strength will rise as we wait upon The Lord, we will wait upon T...

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Lat night I posted that we have our first court date for Deepika's adoption. I had thought that all we needed was one court date, but in fact there are two:   - the first is for the court to re...

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Last night I had the privilege to attend and represent Christian Horizons at TCIFF .  Below is the script I prepared, however, I managed to veer just a little and mention our adoption. =). ...

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On Friday, Karen's birthday, we received news that we received the "No Objection Certificate" or NOC.  Apparently it's a new system, and it took the last family twice as long to get their NOC, ...

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On Friday I tweeted the following:  Adoption update: Recommendation Certificate is issued! Next step: CARA must issue the No Objection Certificate. There's more. In the same email exchange...

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When I first wrote the blog below, it was only a day after I switched back to iPhone.  After being back to iPhone for several days, I have realized that my issues with the Z10 came from  physio...

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On Friday afternoon I was driving from an appointment in Cambridge back to Toronto.  It occurred to me that I had a window of about 45 minutes where I could stop somewhere and work.  It also o...

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I work with an incredible group of people.  Yesterday, they surprised me with a birthday party for Deepika.  One of the birthday cards to Deepika said "never before has one girl been so loved ...

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