So I spent much of this weekend at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre booth at Morden’s Corn & Apple Festival (which was remarkably great this weekend). I am exhausted with the combination of the busiest parenting weekend of the year and the busiest weekend of the year for work but somehow it all came together very well.

Our booth was situated somewhere between the Creationism booth and the Humanist, Atheist, Agnostics of Manitoba booth. It was apt because I feel I am somewhat personally situated between these extremes as well. 

I am pleased to have made friends at both booths and thankful that we can differ but still find ways to engage in thoughtful, respectful dialogue.I wish this were always the case but too often we become demons in the eyes of people we believe are demons when we are all products of a broken world struggling to make sense of things without going insane.

After spending time getting to know people whose views are diametrically opposed I have become even more convinced that we (people that is) spend far too much time in personal conflict while the world burns around us.

To hate is to be guilty of murder says Christ and I find I am ashamed at how many people I have killed in my life.

We are like members of the same army who have been slyly pit against one-another by a clever enemy to a point where we exert all our efforts at trying to gossip, hate, lie, cheat, shun and otherwise become sadly distracted from the things which are far more important – loving, unified community…anything else is destructive.