Janessa Nayler-Giesbrecht

A smiling woman holding a bouquet of flowers.

Picked flowers, felt cute.

filled with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control - speaking out against the very real injustices facing others in our world instead of creating our own.

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I fear this conversation we are having now will make it much harder for that to be seen and recognized by anyone.

My sincere hope is all followers of Jesus will join me in doing our best to love God and love our neighbours as ourselves,

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of UNDOING our own hostility and ill-treatment to other people groups - a history that we would do well to recognize and repent of.

All of this to say, should there come a time when legitimate hostility and ill-treatment are targeted at the Christian church in Canada,

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privilege happen it can feel deeply threatening to those the privileges benefit. But to feel one's privileges threatened is also not at all the same thing as genuine hostility or ill-treatment. In some cases with the Christian church, the threat to our privilege has actually been the result

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all other people groups at the time, and there's more.
Christians in North America have, and continue to, experience a significant amount of privilege in their context - and I would actually argue we are not at all better for it, but that's another conversation. That said, when shifts in any

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Hostility and ill-treatment are not equal to the following: people disagreeing with you, laws granting people permission to choose to do things that you would not choose to do for religious reasons, receiving a fine for not having the right permits, not being able to gather in a pandemic like

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I can't begin to express how disheartening and honestly embarrassing it is to listen to a conversation about "Christian persecution" in North America on the news as recent events bring it back into light. Persecution is hostility or ill-treatment of a specific group of people.
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The most magical thing I’ve seen is my 3-year-old experiencing a play for the first time. Standing with rapt attention and face shifting from delight to concern to laughter all the way through. My GOODNESS that was good for the soul.

All 5 former Hockey Canada players found not guilty of sexual assault | CBC

I believe E.M.

www.cbc.ca/9.6842381

Every time a Canadian politician uses the term “deal” like that guy running that country insists on describing the goal of trade relations with, an angel of democratic sanity loses its wings.

The Toronto skyline at dusk

A mountain covered in trees with a lake at its base

The Pacific Ocean with mountain outlines in the background

A river with rocky hills lining its sides

Visited Ontario, then got home and hopped in a car to drive from Manitoba to BC and back and wow… Canada is a thing of beauty.

Black and white portrait of a smiling woman in sunglasses

Photo by my 6 year old.

This is a great point and I will claim it!

People are like “I’m on book number 3 of my summer list!” And I’m like “I’m on book number 2 since I had kids 6 years ago!”

In the last 48 hours I’ve been in four provinces, hitting up number five later today. The sights have been awesome but my sense of time is absolutely wild.

Start the slow descent into Winnipeg and have genuine butterflies at the idea of seeing my kiddos again. 🥰

I’m literally on a flight and my iPad has the first season downloaded. I think it was the anticipation.

So I just woke up from a dream where I’d found eggs in my yard and nurtured them to hatch and one ended up being a huge turkey with a sweet personality and I couldn’t keep him so I got Amy Poehler to ask Joe Biden to pardon it and keep it.

Wow there is a lot to unpack there.

Here to report that @timamor.bsky.social is a real person and is just as cool in real life. Meeting internet friends is fantastic.

For political messes
that are so deep
and so wide
and so long,
hear our prayer,
God who specializes
in impossibilities
#BigMess

So I’m at my first national gathering for my new conference and we just sang a song referring to God as female and everyone just sang along and no one was fazed except me, who was fazed by how beautiful it was. Phew.

I’m just a girl, finding perfect ropes at a park, pretending to be WWE superstar Becky Lynch, and then almost falling over.

Got that “getting up in 5 hours for a flight” feeling.

This is one of my all time favourites. It is, indeed, banging.

A Sermon for When the US Bombed Iran Pacifism in a time of war

“In short,” he wrotes, “Christians are not nonviolent because we believe our nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but rather because faithful followers of Christ in a world of war cannot imagine being anything else than nonviolent.” melissaflorerbixler.substack.com/p/a-sermon-f...

An evening sky with fluffy white clouds tipped with pink.

The sky tonight.

I am here to announce that I have been given a new title by a beautiful ND young person in my life (the title came with a BFF necklace that I now TREASURE):

"Favourite loving female bestie human being kitten cat butterfly polar bear."

You may now refer to me as that.

For all who
lie in bed tonight
wondering
if a bomb
or missile
will kill them
and their loved ones,
hear our prayer
#BanTheBomb

Boys at a store with me:
Small son - I want this gun toy!
Big son - No Darcy, we don’t have those because mom doesn’t like guns.

We all moved on and it was fine.

Pacifist mom win!