This was the saddest loss that I have seen in the World Cup.
Australia played so well, and Italy wins the game with five seconds to spare.
The ref should have let the game play on and let the players battle it out in overtime.
To end the game on a pentaly kick is no fun. Way to go Soccerooos. You guys played with a lot of heart.
Tomorrow should be a good game with Brazil and Ghana.
I can’t wait to watch this match up.
More soccer to go!
This is an excellent book on Jesus.
The first chapter was excellent.
It was about JESUS’ LOVE.
I think he did a good job of capturing Jesus’
love in beautiful images.
He gives this vivid picture of Jesus talking to Judas
at the last supper. It made me cry because of the deep love
Jesus has for everyone even Judas.
I started reading the second chapter about the church.
This one hasn’t been as good.
Check it out if you have time.
I need another good fiction recommendation.
Anybody been reading some good fiction this summer?
Invitation to: Parade For Reconciliation
Time: 11am, July 1 2006
Marshalling Point: Victory Square (Cambie and West Pender)
Ending point: Chinatown (Gore and East Pender)
Purpose: to compliment the redress of Chinese Head Tax by the federal government with a communal reconciliation and a parade that symbolically reverses the 1907 anti-Chinese immigration parade that turned into an ugly riot where a mob of 9000 ransacked Vancouver Chinatown.
Agenda:
11am Welcome to the event
Historical background: Bill Chu
Need for Reconciliation: Rev. Tama Ward Balisky and Wayne Ho
Symbolic reconciliation between Chinese and non-Chinese Canadians among the audience, with hand-shaking or embrace
11:40am to 12:15am
Parade from Victory Square to Chinatown
Offering of red packages at Chinatown
Closing Remarks
Background:
We live in the shadow of an Empire. That Empire once colonized and now globalize. Like Paul the apostle who was a Roman citizen, we can either claim all the privileges of the Empire’s citizenship or we declare its irrelevance by submitting ourselves to the demands on citizens of God’s Kingdom. Specifically the choice today is to decide whether Canadians’ discriminatory treatment of the early Chinese is acceptable and whether reconciliation is the solution. To help your choice, I have attached a brief history between Chinese and the colonial powers.
This is an invitation to a communal reconciliation event coming up on Canada Day, 2006. The backdrop is the federal government’s parliamentary apology and redress announcement for the Chinese Head Tax survivors and their surviving spouses on June 22, 2006. That was the official redress to an historic injustice. But for the interpersonal and communal discrimination then and now, there is a parallel need for interpersonal and communal reconciliation between the two peoples. We therefore invite you to come and hear the historical and spiritual reasons for reconciliation, then make the people’s choice of walking together with the once marginalized. Invite other Canadian friends and be a witness to the historic truth to others in Canada and the world on coming July 1.
Although Christians have taken an initial lead in planning this initiative, this parade is by no means restricted to christians. It is open to anyone seeking truth and reconciliation. Note also it is not purely a Chinese issue as the government acknowledges discrimination then affected a number of people groups in Canada, and the financial redress will apply to any living spouses of HT payers, be they Chinese, First nations or Canadians. To move on as a country, Canadians need to make an informed decision to seek reconciliation with their past. Please pray that people can see the falleness of human beings in each community and can humble themselves in a collective desire to heal, to honour, to restore and to reconcile.
Bill Chu
Founder, Canadians For Reconciliation
ccia@shaw.ca
