This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light and there is no darkness in him at all - 1 John 1:5 NLTThe light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it - John 1:5 NLTWho are you listening to? What do you find beautiful?The stories we live by shape our movement and action. It trains our noticing and informs what we pay attention to. What we experience is significantly altered by how we perceive situations, through the lenses of our stories. The story is our frame of reference. It is a kind of map. It shows us where we are in the world. We are in the story and it encapsulates all the details that we find and describes the patterns that we see. Stories, like music or poetry, draws us in (or out) so we can see beyond what is immediately in front of us. "The windows of our perception are cleansed" (William Blake).An aspect of love is the capacity for unity and multiplicity to exist. God embodies this in the Trinity. God including us in this is a mystery, and this story is revealed by human writers in particular settings and human contexts. Hearing and experiencing the beauty of these stories helps us prepare for justice and truth.
Mr Kawamura has been teaching for over twenty years - most of them at Richmond Christian Secondary. His first classroom teaching job was in a remote northern BC First Nations community.He was present at his birth, over fifty years ago.He is married with three children and is dad to a labradoodle.Musical influences include Max Richter, J. S. Bach, Claude Debussy, the Beatles, U2, Jacob Collier, Bill EvansHe plays softball, tennis, basketball, and floor hockey, and loves most sports and physical activity.He enjoys video editing and is learning how to code better.He once rode a bike from Vancouver to Calgary over two weeks.He volunteered at a Somali refugee camp in North East Kenya for three months.He saw the movie, Star Wars, over seven times when it came out in 1977 when he was eight years old.
Welcome to our educational space. As we learn and grow together, it's important to recognize that we are situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, specifically the Musqueam Nation. This acknowledgment reminds us to respect the enduring history and culture of the Indigenous communities who have stewarded this land for generations, and to commit ourselves to learning and respectful coexistence.
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