April 30, 2025 April 30, 2025 | Jim Cantelon | Blog We’ve always seen ourselves as lighting a candle rather than cursing the darkness, and now, more than ever in our 25 year history I believe WOW has “come to the Kingdom for such a time as this”. Read More
April 16, 2025 April 16, 2025 | Jim Cantelon | Blog As I read this, I thought of Pontius Pilate’s rhetorical question as Jesus was brought before him for judgement, “What is truth?” This question resonates throughout history. Truth is the foundation for life. If that foundation is shaken who can build a life? Read More
April 02, 2025 April 2, 2025 | Jim Cantelon | Blog Recently a few personal friends have been diagnosed with serious illnesses. As is often the case these afflictions came on suddenly. From one day to the next they went from life as usual to what Shakespeare famously described as “a walking shadow who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard […] Read More
March 19, 2025 March 19, 2025 | Jim Cantelon | Blog Africans living with HIV have been medically orphaned and face the grim reality of living with a 100% fatal disease. Read More
March 05, 2025 March 5, 2025 | Jim Cantelon | Blog Most of us may not want to admit it but we like being in control. Overlooking the constant impact of that which we can’t control (like our autonomic nervous system, our internal organ function, our general genetic makeup, etc, etc) we flatter ourselves with our self discipline, fitness and diet values, money management, social interactions, […] Read More
February 19, 2025 February 19, 2025 | Jim Cantelon | Blog I’m sitting by our fireplace in early morning with my Bible and a coffee. As the fire crackles I’m listening to a playlist of sacred music on Spotify. A group of nuns are singing the beautiful Prayer of St.Patrick by Margaret Rizza: “Calm Me Lord as You Calmed the Storm”. The lyrics are powerful: “Calm […] Read More
February 05, 2025 February 5, 2025 | Jim Cantelon | Blog Our challenge with repentance is that our pride is offended not only by admitting we’re in the wrong but by the humility that it requires. Read More
January 22, 2025 January 22, 2025 | Jim Cantelon | Blog As Los Angeles fires raze entire neighborhoods, the Middle East balances on a razor’s edge, Sudan’s millions face impending starvation, and America swears in a new/old president, we wonder what 2025 will bring. In the vortex of constant change we long for some sort of relief, a return to a semblance of equilibrium, a glimmer […] Read More
January 08, 2025 January 8, 2025 | Jim Cantelon | Blog We’ve already lived a quarter century in this millennium. And, even though there are crises of magnitude everywhere, our world is still turning and there is hope. Read More
December 25, 2024 December 25, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog I’m writing today (Christmas Eve) in the beautiful Laurentian Mountains of Quebec. We’re at the home of one of our sons. It’s snowing with about a metre already guaranteeing a white Christmas. It’s an idyllic setting. Our 12 grandchildren range in age from 24 to 8 and when we’re all together it’s raucous and fun […] Read More
December 11, 2024 December 11, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog Our war weary world needs to know that new life can rise from total destruction. The shattered homes, villages, and cities that have dominated our screens for the past three years will not dominate forever. Read More
November 27, 2024 November 27, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog The downside of our connected world is that we’re also connected with a world in chaos with war, famine, and sorrow on sorrow. Little wonder we sometimes lie awake at night praying for peace. Read More