My WBFM Church Family...

While everyone is always welcome to read my blog. This one is especially intended for my Word Became Flesh Church Family (WBFM) based in Brampton, Ontario.

I have been thinking about all of you lately for many reasons. The cliché is that “absence makes the heart grow fonder.” I am not sure if that is truly the case with me. But I do know that my absence is giving me daily clarity and insight into many things including the value of my church family. That is all you guys. You still are very much my church family.

I know that this is a time of transition for many of you. Change isn’t easy in any realm of existence especially when it has to do with the realization of new truths. I guess it is like what happens when the light is turned on in your bedroom before daybreak. Even though light is better than darkness, in that moment, you feel the shock and instinctively hide under the covers. We all do it. There is no shame in it.

I just want to encourage you to lift those covers and allow your eyes to adjust to the light because there is so much still to see. The learning process is often difficult and it is easy to think you need to make this journey all by yourself. This feeling is compounded by the thought that you are alone in your journey.

It is true that most of the climbing is done with your own two feet. There are many obstacles that you alone must conquer. The butterfly must escape from the cocoon under its own power in order to have the strength to fly. But herein lies the beauty of it all, if you overcome, you will fly.

Through it all however, do not forget your adopted family. Even though they may not always understand what you are going through, and may sometimes not even be aware that you are struggling, they do love you. I have learned that it is just as important to recognize love in the form that it is individually given, as it is to receive love.

You are all intended for great things. Your piece is integral to the completion of a beautiful story. You are more valuable than even you realize. But in order to fulfill that potential means you will go through the pains of shaping and also the fear of risking that step into the unknown.


And should you choose to take that step. Should you choose to lift the covers and allow your eyes to adjust to the light. Trust that the hand that will never leave you nor forsake you, will be there to pick you up and guide you through to your future.

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 29: 11