I was shocked to read this morning that Steven Curtis Chapman and his family have suffered and heart breaking loss.  Maria, Chapman's 5-year-old daughter was killed after being struck by the family SUV which was being driven by their teenage son.  The accident occured in the family's driveway and was apparently witnessed by some of the family members.

Read more: http://www.stevencurtischapman.com/

Yes, it's true.  Red Deer College would rather you simply go to college (their college I presume) than pursue your dreams.

The economic headlines aren’t good these days. Apparently a life is getting more expensive to maintain for those who still have one. The system takes less than five sentences to describe: humans move food too far from where it grows, so its price depends on factors external to food, such as the price of oil, which depends on rich powerful people in the realm of political affairs, which means that the price of food mostly increases due to the greed and pride of a very small number of human beings out of 6 billion.

I’m frustrated.

"The gospel of sin management produces vampire Christians who want Jesus for his blood and little else." (Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy)

I just finished watching the movie "Into the Wild".  Good film - almost great. Thought provoking to say the very least.

I was struck by a Doctor Zhivago quote in the film.  At a key turning point for our protagonist, Chris, he reads out loud a line from Doctor Z that went like this...

"She was here in earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and call each thing by its right name."
-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago