Set a Resolute Path

Is your New Year’s Day a day of challenges that you set up for yourself for the rest of the year? At Serena Manitoba Inc. we challenge you to have a good look at your relationships, health, reflect on what you can do to help the environment, even challenge yourself to live as your Creator [...]

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The Best Deal of the Season!

As the Christmas season approaches, the media and businesses are doing a great job with their promotion budgets to convince us of the best and most affordable ‘deals’.
In September 2008 the CCCB issued a letter entitled “Liberating Potential“. One of the main points was to promote one of the best deals for couples. They are [...]

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Life’s A Party

This past week I received an invitation from a motivational speaker to host his Life’s A Party presentation. Knowing the health challenges this person has faced doesn’t really bring visions of brightly coloured balloons and bubbly champagne to mind.
At the last natural family planning teaching session an observer might have wondered about the spectacle of [...]

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Serena Manitoba – Always There

I was recently involved in co-ordinating a bridal shower for a university student. The date and location were secured. The invitations went out. The toast to the bride-to-be was lovingly compiled. Food was prepared. The location was adorned with streamers and helium balloons. Tables were covered with tablecloths and colourful edible sprinkles. The head table [...]

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A Happy & Healthy Start (Again)

Resolutions, diets and over-indulged credit card accounts abound at this time of year. Strangely, they have something in common – it’s so fun to participate in their initial introduction! The ‘carrying through’ part causes us more pain.
Unlike the above, ‘carrying through’ the practice of natural family planning just gets more exciting the longer you practice [...]

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

As has become our tradition, once again as we gathered for our family gift exchange, before opening a present the recipient shared a ‘thank you’ for something that happened in the past year. We have moved past ‘I am thankful for this present’ to many thoughtful and specific messages of gratitude for someone in our [...]

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All That Glitters Is…Snow!

We finally received enough snowfall to actually say we now have a blanket of snow covering. Anything left outside is now wearing a glistening white cap – be it pumpkins, the handles of garden forks, or the outstretched arms of park benches. The beauty that covers them now with its wintry white evokes memories [...]

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Creating Ripples That Last a Lifetime

Last weekend in Canada we celebrated Thanksgiving Day. Several weeks prior to our gathering the hostess had requested submissions of ‘I am thankful for…’ These ‘thank offerings’ were then posted at the event. Guests were invited to move around the room to read the submissions, making an attempt to match the anonymous writer with the [...]

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The Majesty, Order, and Confidence of the Canada Goose

As I sit here at the computer, a gaggle of geese has just written their picturesque way across the screen of blue sky outside the window. I wish I could hit the ‘refresh’ button and watch them again and again. Not possible. But I do hold the vision of what the Canada Geese do best [...]

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Serena Manitoba – Consistent to the End

A few days ago, I participated in an event that commemorated the martyrdom of a priest in the Majdanek Concentration Camp near Lublin, Poland in 1944. When offered freedom if he would stop helping others find freedom (for their souls), Fr. Kowcz chose to endure suffering alongside his fellow prisoners. On display at the event [...]

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