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Gary Belanger is an amazing guy from the community who always has a good word for everybody.  He is in his mid forties - yet has the youthful look and exuberance of someone twenty year his junior.  Today at a great community event - Café Rencontre at the Wesley Community Centre on Notre Dame de Grace - we all gathered for fellowship and to celebrate Gary's birthday. Shady Safar - the organizer of these weekly community events - related to us how he has to work within a strict budget and didn't know if he had sufficient funds to buy food for the estimated 30-35 people as well as to buy a cake for Gary.  At the very last minute a local pizza outlet contacted him to tell him they had a good number of pizzas to donate - which freed up Shady's budget in order to buy Gary a big cake!  At the table someone mentioned that God works in mysterious ways.  My answer to that was the further down the path we get with God - the less mysterious are His ways! So we were over 30 ...

For those who read my blog posts - you know this blog is aimed at helping you find Heaven - here on Earth - in our everyday lives.  I'd like to share with you a story of my day today. River's Edge Community Church is a wonderful institution in NDG.  I had never been there physically - but have followed Lorenzo DellaForesta - the lead pastor's messages online quite often.  I love the way he presents his material - and the way the entire service is delivered - with wonderful, uplifting music by Lorenzo's wife Michelle and her twin sister Monica, along with a great band. I went to River's Edge for the service - but mainly to meet up with several friends afterwards - as they were having their monthly Community Brunch.  I thoroughly enjoyed the service and met several people from the community who I know - two of whom are helping out as volunteers!   When it was time for brunch - the people in charge had done an amazing job of establishing two identical setup...

  I have been absent for awhile - busy accomplishing in a variety of areas.  Over the course of my last 20+ years I have lived a very peaceful existence - having seldom if ever experienced malice or even negative situations lasting more than a matter of minutes. My last 3 months have been much more tumultuous - causing me to reflect - and to make efforts to change my circumstances back to those of the past 20 years.  Actually - I traced this all back to errors caused by myself - in my outlook and the way I was managing myself. This blog is about finding Heaven on Earth - here on this earth and in this time.  There is nothing more important to this than in endeavouring to be love in every moment.  Love is God's currency - and when we are being love - by giving of our selves - our utmost - ato anyone and everyone and to anything and everything - we are as close to God as we can be. My course over these last many years has been a charmed one.  Ultimately you w...