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Name: Sean Marcel
Interests: Jesus of Nazareth, Flying, HxC (and other musics), family and friends, watching small birds (this is one I think I'll pursue more later in life), Montana, anything cowboy.
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2/23/2004
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| When we use the word "Chance" are we referring to divine providence? Or simply speaking of a proverbial roll of the dice? In biblical times it was believed that the dice or "lots" revealed the will of The Creator...
These encounters cannot be planned, I have tried it doesn't work. I mean I'm sure one can do things or go places that increase one's "chances" or a chance encounter. But one cannot truly plan one. Sometimes though, when one plan fails "chance" seems to reveal other possibilities... I wish I had this all figured out.
I saw a Deli in Edmonton, it was white and as far as I could tell it was pretty much exactly the same as DWPS. For a brief moment I thought I was having a chance encounter but then I realized that's ridiculous.
Last week in Three Hills I had several not-so-chance encounters with many old friends (among several chance encounters). One of the well planned encounters was at a friend's house, Morley's house. He is one of my cycling mentors. He and his wife live in an old Church out in the country, quite literally in the middle of nowhere. Seems like an odd place for a church but a great place for a quite country home. I think you guys would have liked it if you had been there.
Peace be with you! | | |
| I am in Three Hills, Alberta right now. Chetwynd is this weekend, then Edmonton for a week then a couple of weeks in Calgary. I thank the Lord for traveling mercies so far and pray that schedules will allow for plenty of appointments and presentation opportunities to friends and contacts in Alberta and BC.
Last weekend I drove to Prince George with some friends to go to a wedding. We stayed at a house on the lake and this dog was there:
He's a sweet little guy. I took this picture because I thought Zac might like it.
When I get back to Ottawa in a few weeks we MUST go to the museum of natural history and look at whales and dinosaurs and stuff like that.
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| Hey friends. Once again Jeremy invited me to participate in his 12 hours in photos blog project. So I took pictures today and posted them, you guys know I am no photographer I just like documenting days. So check it out.
http://12hoursinphotos.blogspot.com/
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| I don't know if you guys noticed but I uploaded a little video of Arjun playing accordion and Zac playing guitar. For some reason this video doesn't want to be posted in an entry like this one. The Jam sessions have been good lately and they will only get better! Friends, brothers.
I can't seem to stop thinking about the ocean. I was going to write a big blog about the ocean and how waves are a terribly profound thing (cosmic even!) but I figure you guys have all read enough of that for now right? If you'd like to get deeper into the ocean (haha) then let me recommend a couple of films: Crystal Voyager (this must be one of the most underrated films of all time) and Laird (Hamilton). Great movies, great waves, great people.
I would like to encourage you, my friends, to ride a bike now. It's that time of year when the air is getting a little cooler and you can go for a rip and not get all sweaty. I still broke a sweat on the way to church this morning though. I know some of our Alberta neighbors got some serious snow this week but it'll probably leave for a little while yet and who cares, you can bike in the snow too.
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This is my first fall in Ontario in 6 years (First thanksgiving at home in that time too). Aside from friends fall is one of the things I missed most about this province. Edmonton had a nice fall last year, more trees than Three Hills or Calgary but it still didn't compare to Ontario. There is so much more colour here in the fall, not as much sky or horizon and you're not guaranteed a brilliant sunset nearly every night like on the prairies but the glowing oranges and reds of the leafy trees make up for that in their own sort of way. Fall even has a bit of a different smell here, I am glad I get to experience a little bit more of this part of the world before pursuing a different life, what a privilege!
There are many appealing things about the tropics but I am definitely going to miss the seasons. | | |
| I'm back in Ottawa after a time in Nova Scotia. I've been to a different Church each week for the past 7 weeks (not only in NS but also, ON, NB, PE) this is good but a little exhausting. Shout out to little E for welcoming me to Hali shortly after I arrived. Kites will never get old, especially when there is a beach to fly them on.
Here are some mediocre camera-phone pictures from NS and PE:
This is JJ. Some of you will remember him.
This is JJ as a war journalist.
This is JJ at breakfast in this little German cafe where the food was tasty and the silverware made it feel classy.
In the words of Stan Rogers: "She's a kindly Cape Islander, old but still sound..." My brother in law, my sister and I saw a small fishing boat like this run aground while we were walking the dog one night.
Here are some sail boats that went sailing by my sister's place one evening. Some of them were really moving. The sky was like lilacs, all purple, the picture doesn't really do it justice.
Here's another sail boat, this one belongs to my uncle. He built it out of wood. My cousin's wedding reception was at the yacht club in Chester (south shore, NS) and in the middle of it my uncle rowed his dingy out to his schooner to check on 'er. This picture is all blue.
After all this happened I stayed one more week in NS. Canada's ocean playground as they say. And then came the highlight of the past two and two-thirds decades of my life (basically my whole life, overstatement? maybe, you be the judge). Poppa J and Fish showed up in NS. Now you all know how much I love NS, and you all know how much I love friends, so what could be better than friends and Nova Scotia? SURFING, friends and Nova Scotia! Jim and Sarah took me surfing, two days in a row. I didn't realize it until the day after but I think I am in love with surfing. It is the greatest of the board sports. There is something truly stunning and surreal about paddling out through the breakers, crashing through the mayhem and then arriving on the gentle swell where you can sit on a board, floating, rising, falling, and look out at the ocean horizon, waiting for the right wave... And there is something (I think) spiritual about actually dropping in and being pushed by the surging swell of water as it sloshes around the face of the earth, pulled by the moon... tides are crazy.
Anyway... after I got back to Ontario a few days ago I drove down to the MAF office in Guelph. I had to do some aptitude testing and yesterday I had a Skype interview with a Dutch Psychologist. He asked a lot of questions about me like "what would your friends say your weakest and strongest points are" and "give yourself a rating on a scale of 1 to 10" and "when you were in primary school what were your strong subjects?" Weird, I don't know what all that is supposed to say about me as a pilot or my fitness to serve overseas. Oh well, it's done. Thanks to a lot of you the support for my ministry with MAF is now at 33.1% and I'm on track to leave for the field sometime in late winter or spring. Still don't know where I'll be going though... | | |
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