2 Peter chapter 1 - building your faith progressively. To believe in something you need to study it and understand it. In baptism you received help in both believing and understanding, by receiving the Holy Spirit. Then through life, you build and deepen your faith by practicing, like exercising. Nicole pointed out that some people think that they choose to believe in God, where we believe that God has already chosen you.
1988 - On this day, a very pleasant memory. Cold winter day, Nicole was 3 and we spent the day on the couch reading. We always started with Beatrix Potter, the 12 book set. At 3 she would tell me that I skipped something if I missed a word, she had most of them committed to memory. I always have a book (nook) open, maybe today I will revisit Peter Rabbit, wish I had a kid here....Nicole?
Parenting - I think reading to your child (and I hope it is not a lost art) is good on so many levels. First of all you are usually close to the child, lap or arm around etc. snuggled. Then there is the melody of your voice, crooning the words on the page, not the correctional "mother" voice. The sharing of a common interest and delight in a pleasant or exciting story. The new dimension of being in another place together in imagination. Ah, very pleasant.
Vancouver -
Early growth[edit]
The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster (founded February 14, 1859) on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, bypassing what would become Vancouver.[29][30][31] Vancouver is among British Columbia's youngest cities;[32] the first European settlement in what is now Vancouver was not until 1862 at McLeery's Farm on the Fraser River, just east of the ancient village of Musqueam in what is now Marpole. A sawmill established at Moodyville (now the City of North Vancouver) in 1863, began the city's long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the south shore of the inlet. Stamp, who had begun logging in the Port Alberni area, first attempted to run a mill at Brockton Point, but difficult currents and reefs forced the relocation of the operation in 1867 to a point near the foot of Gore Street. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed. The mill's central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the local economy until it closed in the 1920s.[33]The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by "Gassy" Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property.[32][34] In 1870, the colonial government surveyed the settlement and laid out a townsite, renamed "Granville" in honour of the then-British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Granville. This site, with its natural harbour, was selected in 1884[35] as the terminus for the Canadian Pacific Railway, to the disappointment of Port Moody, New Westminster and Victoria, all of which had vied to be the railhead. A railway was among the inducements for British Columbia to join the Confederation in 1871, but the Pacific Scandal and arguments over the use of Chinese labour delayed construction until the 1880s.[36]
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