Patience & Well-Being
Patience & Well-Being The dictionary defines patience as “the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset”. It’s like the dictionary doesn’t understand our ‘right now’ society of high-speed connectivity and immediate answers from Google or Alexa! In our fast-paced world we expect the…
Jon Tyson
Jon Tyson is a Pastor and Church Planter in New York City. Originally from Adelaide, Australia, Jon moved to the United States twenty years ago with a passion to seek and cultivate renewal in the Western Church. He is the author of Sacred Roots, A Creative Minority and, The Burden is Light. Jon lives…
My Constant Struggle With Patience
“I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry.” It is often easy for me to forget, in my constant struggle with patience, that God is always listening to me. The natural inclination of the human heart is to want to be like God. It’s…
The Practice of Patience
I remember a time in my life where I was struggling with burnout. Things had been not going well for a while, but I couldn’t quite figure out what it was that was happening to me. Surely a person in their 20’s couldn’t be “burnt out”?! But I was. Unfortunately…
Tryphena Perumalla Gagnon
Tryphena Perumalla-Gagnon is a second Generation Indian-Canadian. Tryphena was born in Scarborough, and raised in a Home with two educators. She graduated from York University (Sociology and Education) in 2010, became a teacher and worked for numerous years in the TDSB. Tryphena is married to a gorgeous French Canadian – Marc,…
Be Still
What does peace feel like? What does peace look like? The rapid pace of change has become such regular part of life that, despite our best intentions, the hours of our day are maxed out before we know it and we’re still trying to cram in more activities, meetings, events,…
The Chaos Surrounding My Life
Peace is not the absence of chaos but the presence of a Person. As I sit down to write this, I am aware of the chaos surrounding my life. Numerous things left unfinished, amidst the storm of sickness ravaging my little family. I have a hard time finding peace throughout…