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"Always seems to me / 'Sorry' seems to be the hardest word." -- Elton John Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin are right: it's extraordinarily hard to say that you've done something wrong and hurt somebody. But I think there's an even harder word.

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I don鈥檛 know about you, but I have spent most of 2017 so far longing for the light to come back. Is it just me, or has our normally grey West Coast winter been even greyer? The prolonged {for us) snow and cold haven鈥檛 helped, either, I suppose.

The Jewish holiday of Purim is quickly approaching. It begins on the evening of March 11 and continues through the next day, Sunday the 12th. The holiday of Purim has its roots in the Biblical Book of Esther.

From our 12 th -storey window overlooking the Salish Sea, I can see the communities nestled along the West Shore, across the snowy peaks of Washington to the south and over to Trial Island in the east.

Our Member of Parliament in North Vancouver, Liberal Jonathan Wilkinson, won the 2015 election by 19,157 votes, defeating the Conservative incumbent, Andrew Saxton, who had won a second term in the riding in 2011 by 11,331 votes.

I just returned from travelling overseas to Scotland and Ireland.

As I wrote last week, God requires us to practice.

It might be easier to preach the gospel and expound upon the 鈥楪ood Book鈥� if the stories told and the struggles contained weren鈥檛 so dratted relevant.