Posts from 2023 (Page 13)

I’ll be honest, I have a bad habit of doing things on the fly. Essay due tonight? Just unload your thoughts onto the paper. No time to practice the worship set before Sunday? Eh, it’ll be fine. (Sorry worship leaders). Over time, I found that having some kind of preparation or plan makes the actual project easier because I already took off some of the workload and figured out what to do. When I prep, however, I never pray about…

Dear LifeSpring Family, Most of us know the universal acronym S.O.S means Save Our Souls or Save Our Ship. However, it currently means ‘Strengthen Our Soul’ to me. This is because I am in a course to Strengthen Our(My) Soul. Power To Change (P2C) has made this course available to all staff because Soul Care has been the primary focus of P2C as we transition out of the pandemic. The first assignment centres on the 3 Ps – Page, Person…

“5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write…

This week, I was reflecting on a couple of meetings I had with the people at Neighborlink North York. As you may know, during the second half of 2022 we decided to support the food bank (called the 415 Food Hub) run by Neighborlink in the Willowdale area. They were unable to operate for one month last year due to a lack of finances, so we decided to support this ministry so that they could continue to operate and provide…

As we inquired and sought the Lord for His will for the church family in 2023, He put on our hearts Kingdom Parenting. I wish I could tell you exactly what this means and the 5 steps to accomplishment this assignment – but the reality is that as we learn and grow in Kingdom Parenting, the Lord will reveal aspects, tools, insights, for us to grow in it. Whenever there is a God-given Purpose there will always be God-given Provision.…

Dear LifeSpring Family, I have recently started walking at Markville Mall before the stores open. I do this as part of my exercise routine as well as to listen to the Lord. I took the opportunity to ask God for His message to me and LifeSpring regarding Kingdom Parenting this week. I sensed God affirming the need for Kingdom Parenting for the following reasons: Helps me mature a little more in Him as I focus on the needs of others…

Hey Lifespring Fam! Check-in Time… We are thirteen days into this January Church Fast … we’ve nearly hit the two-week mark!! How’re we all doin’? Obviously, we can’t actually talk about it like this, but I’m willing to bet there are loads of different responses out there to that one, little question. I know for me, just within my own experience, I’m having lots of different responses: ONLY   T W O   W E E K S   IN?! 😩 How much…

Fasting meat has been difficult. I didn’t realize that swapping eggs for meat wouldn’t stop me from being hungry all the time, and my snacking habits subsequently skyrocketed to the point where my mom suggested that I fast snacks instead of meat. It didn’t help that there were a LOT of cookies, cake, and snacks at home from the Christmas and New Year baking. Last week, I had a wake up call from my sister, who said, “Abby, you can’t fill that…

Right before the new year, one of the titles of the weekly church email was “Ready, Set… FAST!” I think we’re definitely off to a running start for 2023, fasting and all. I had a chance to be part of the kickoff celebration with MLCF on January 1st, and it was an amazing way to ring in the new year. Our theme for 2023 is “Kingdom Parenting.” As we talk about parenting this year, I think it’s important to clarify…

Dear LifeSrping Family, Do you have one? Allow me to share a hymn that most of us are familiar with. Be Thou My Vision Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heartNaught be all else to me, save that Thou artThou my best thought, by day or by nightWaking or sleeping, Thy presence my light Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true wordI ever with Thee and Thou with me, LordThou my great Father, and I Thy true…

Have you ever noticed that food and drinks at the airport cost way more than they do elsewhere? Why does a case of water cost $5.00 at a grocery store but a bottle of water at Pearson cost $3.00? It’s because the food and water is not priced at what it costs, it’s priced at what it’s worth.Both bottles of water are manufactured the same and cost the same to make. However the grocery store knows that you can buy…

2022 was full of amazing accomplishments through the action and generosity of the Lifespring family. Whether it was through the raising of over $75,000 for the water wells, giving over $15,000 for Ukraine Relief, and even giving over $20,000 to the Neighbourlink food bank – God truly showed us that we were blessed to be a blessing. Yet as I reflected on all the amazing things God has done in us, through us, and around us in 2022 – I…