Love Actually is all around

Before I tell you all about love, here's what I did this weekend:

Friday: played lego with Youngest, went for a run (first time I went all around the park without having to slow down and walk!), enjoyed Canadian treats from lovely friends, watched 'Spanglish'—which I LOVED!

Saturday: slept in until almost 11 (so late for me), hung out at Oxfam with City, met Aussie to visit BMAG and watch 'The Princess and the Frog' (meh, was a little disappointed in Disney), stayed up late to watch the Vancouver 2010 Opening Ceremonies…

Dear Canada,

Maple leaves are red, Maple Leafs are blue,
Even though I'm far away, I still love you!

Last night I watched the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Some of it was cliché and some of it perpetuated some Canadian stereotypes, but mostly, the ceremonies were an excellent celebration of the coming together of over 80 different countries and the particular celebration of the world's second-largest, but little known, nation.

I cried, as was probably expected by those who know me. Some of my favourite moments were:

Shane Koyczan's "We are More" poem.


KD Lang's performance of Leonard Cohen's "Halleluia" (which I cannot find a video of, as all traces of Lang's performance have been wiped from the interweb.) If you can find this video, watch it, it is moving!

The beautiful video projections that incorporated Group of Seven-esque imagery.

I love Canada!

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I also felt some mad love today at church.

Today, the speaker was talking about serving and he read a bit from the Gospel of Mark. In this bit of the Bible, Jesus tells his disciples that even he, the Son of God, did not come to earth to be served, but to serve us and give up his life as a ransom for all of us who are lost (Mark 10:45). The point of the sermon today was to teach us about serving eachother, our city, etc. But it also underlined the main message of the Gospel, that God is love and that He humbled himself to become human and that He died on the cross so that we (all of us) could be forgiven of everything we do that doesn't match God's perfect plan. Everyone that is born on this earth is a child of God; God loves each of us so much and He wants us to know that we don't need to rely on anything else in this world—money, jobs, relationships, status— to be accepted and loved, because we already are. I already am.