Welcome to the Minister’s Reflections—a place for noticing, for seeing, for gathering thoughts.  Here is the place for theology, for exploration and discovery, for wonder and rest.    If you are reading this, awesome!  Know that I was already thinking about you before you got here and, that I count you among those who form the wider and yes, even global community, that gives shape and identity to High River United Church.    Most of the time it will be me (David) writing here.  My partner and colleague Susan, writes Adventures in Faith and Family which also appears as a link...

On behalf of our family, we wish to pass our Christmas blessing to each and everyone of you.  Christmas arrives each year whether we are ready or not and regardless of our state of affairs.  That probably is the way God intended it.  The birth of Emmanuel—God with us—comes whether we’re ready or not and is born into whatever our life is in the moment.  It is a profoundly incarnate celebration that captures the very depth, meaning and purpose of being human.  We are all living through a unique time of recovery as our community continues to rebuild.  Christmas helps us...

©David Robertson 2014     Recent conversations have been about how hard it is to believe that one year has passed since the waters swept through High River and the wider South Western Alberta region.  For most people it doesn’t feel like a year.  It feels much shorter than that. For others the time has dragged on and on for what feels like an eternity. And yet, it’s all the same time.  The earth has completed one orbit around the sun and here we are.  It’s the same season, but it’s not the same life we live.  It’s the same time of...