February 26, 2006

Today during one of my evening walks in the Fish Creek I ran into the house that still had a Christmas lights on. I even took a picture of it.

Canada report # 23

I was walking from train station, it was cold, windy and it was snowing (yucky would be a good word). In the midst of all of that there was a man shoveling snow. He was wearing shorts, which I found weird, but whatever, I was on my way to Tim Horton’s to read a book. An hour latter I went for my buss stop and here he was still shoveling snow. By now he must have shoveled almost a kilometer of sidewalks. I was impressed. He was coming closer and closer to my buss stop; all people were watching him work. Eventually he was working around our buss stop. One lady said to this man in shorts, “In days like that it must be hard to like your job?” He stopped just for a second, “it is not my job I am doing it as a service to Jesus. He said let you light shine and this is my way of doing it.” Only then I noticed that he had a big, red cross on his jacket. He said couple other words and went back to his business like it was the most natural thing to do. My buss came in ten minutes; when I was leaving I still saw him shoveling snow, in shorts and with the cross on his jacket.
Some how a volunteer shoveling public side walks is not a popular picture of Christian. Is it because this man was not accurate picture of what Jesus intended His people to be? Is it because we are not what we are supposed to be anymore? I don’t know.

Canada report # 22

Sometimes it is amazing how much you can do during the day if you do stuff without getting out of the car. Canadians have drive through banking, drive through food, drive through groceries and drive through car wash. But if you are very busy it turns out that they even have drive through flu shots drive through weddings and even drive through viewing of the dead relatives (speaking of being busy, eh).
Who wants to spend time for socializing during the meal and weddings? It is more important to save time for more important things. When I figure out those more important things I will let you know.

“I miss you” report # 1

This is a bridge in my home town. I had to cross it every time I went to Church and every time I went to visit my mom at work. Sometimes we would stop on the bridge on our way home from church with bunch of my friends; we would talk and just have fun. I miss places and memories like that. What am I doing here? Sometimes I think coming to Canada was a mistake.
But tomorrow is Friday and it will be all good again. C&J&L an I will finish watching Star Wars then we will eat diner and we will do dishes together and have a cup of tee.

Calgary report # 21

On my way to collage there is this very cool hill. My C-train goes right through it. What makes it cool is that this hill is a cemetery hill. Every time I enter this tunnel (well every time I remember to think about it) I fell like I am going in to the kingdom of dead. I imagine that there are dead bodies not underneath me but above me. Isn’t it spooky? I like little things about life like that; they just make me more alive.

Have a great week guys!