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PAUL COOK
ELECTRIC
Home, Farm &
Commercial Wiring
BELGRAVE
519-357-1537
BROWN’S PHARMASAVE
SHELVING & RACKING
519-524-1740
Lakeside
Large instock selection of pallet racking,
store shelving, display cases and more for
Industrial, Residential, Farm & Retail
www.lakesideshelving.com
lakesidemarket@gmail.com
33842 Market Rd.,
North of Goderich, off Hwy. 21
D. C. Craig
Excavating
• Snow Plowing
• Snow Removal
• Excavating
• Bulldozing
• Septic Systems
• Drainage
519-523-4966
NEW CONSTRUCTION
AGRICULTURAL
RENOVATIONS
RESIDENTIAL
Call 519-524-0253
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Bernard
Enterprises
Authorized dealer for
Central Boiler
Classic Outdoor Wood Furnaces,
Edge Outdoor Wood Furnaces &
Maxim Wood Pellet and Corn Burners
Gasification units available
Inquire about our new edges
Carman Bernard
519-887-6405
RR #4 Brussels
centralboiler.com
Dave
Franken
CONCRETE FORMING
For All Your Concrete Needs!
COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL
• Foundations • Floor Finishing
• Circular Tanks • Sandwich Walls
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RR#3 Blyth ~ Fax 519-523-9604
519-523-9971
Affordable
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RENTALS
Large & Small Trucks
fridge carts - piano dollys-
moving blankets
Complete Selection of Cars
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GODERICH TOYOTA
344 Huron Rd. 519-524-9381
GODERICH 1-800-338-1134
- COMPLETE MECHANICAL SERVICE -
COMPUTERIZED TUNE-UPS - TIRES - BRAKES
MUFFLERS - VEHICLE INSPECTION STATION
DAN'S AUTO REPAIR
Owned and Operated by Dan & Heather Snell
RR 3, Blyth, Ont. N0M 1H0
(on the Westfield Rd.)
DAN SNELL, Automotive Technician
519-523-4356
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198 Josephine St., Wingham, Ont.
519-357-1629
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Snowblowers, Land Rollers, Stone Windrowers,
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Full Machine Shop & Repair Services
www.smythwelding.com
306 Josephine St., Wingham
519-357-3894
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hard to hear and too hard to
understand. In the very next section,
Jesus predicts his death the first
time. He tells them he must suffer
and be rejected and killed, then in
three days he will rise again, and
Peter took him aside and began to
rebuke him.
I can only imagine what that
rebuke might have sounded like.
“No Jesus! That’s ridiculous! You’re
not going to die! Didn’t we just
confirm that you are the Messiah?
You’re going to save all of Israel.
You’re going to restore our fortunes,
drive out the oppressing Romans!
Suffer? Die? Don’t be ridiculous!
You’re the Messiah, not some
average chump who can be held
down by the government and
religious people! You’re not like the
rest of us.”
Jesus looks to Peter, who only a
few verses earlier had correctly
identified Jesus as the Christ, and
says, “Get behind me, Satan! You do
not have in mind the things of God,
but the things of men!”
Peter wasn’t ready to listen to
Jesus; to really listen and to hear
what it meant to be the Messiah. He
was happy to listen to Jesus when
Jesus was saying what he wanted to
hear. It was when Jesus said things
he didn’t like that his ears stopped
working.
So Jesus speaks up even louder.
Now he raises his voice to the whole
crowd, as well as the disciples. He
tells them that any who follow him
must deny themselves, take up the
cross, and follow him. Whoever
wants to save his life will lose it, but
whoever loses his life for him and
the gospel will save it.
Make no mistake, Jesus is not just
speaking to the disciples. When he
raised his voice to the crowd, he
raised it so loud that we can still hear
it today. He says to us, here today:
follow me. It will not be easy, but it
is worth it. Pick up your cross and
follow me.
To those of us who are trying to
say, “I’m just looking,” Jesus turns
and says, “Enough looking. It’s time
to listen. Time to follow.”
Lent starts next week. We are
going to journey with Jesus to the
cross. We are going to listen to what
Jesus is telling us, what He’s saying
about what it means to be powerful,
what it means to save and what it
means to be healed.
We are going to listen, and not
just look. We are going to see
Jesus on the cross, pierced with
nails, crowned with thorns, His back
torn open, His muscles too weak to
lift himself up to breathe. We are
going to see the ultimate picture of
defeat, and instead of letting the
horror of what we are seeing cloud
our minds, we are going to keep
listening. That way, we will hear
Him say with his final breath, “It is
accomplished.”
Then we will know what Jesus
was saying to us all along. Following
him doesn’t mean high positions of
glory and honour. It doesn’t mean
flaunting wealth or righteousness.
It doesn’t mean beating up our
oppressors or putting other people
down. Following Jesus means
walking the lonely road with Him,
walking the road of suffering and
scorn that leads us to the cross. And
if we really listen, we will also hear
the end of Jesus’ declaration, that He
would suffer many things, be
rejected and killed. After three days,
He will rise again.
See the pain and see the glory. The
glory of Jesus on the mountain,
transfigured. The holiness that
shines through His humanness, and
then listen. Listen to the words that
Jesus is saying to us still today.
Push aside the desire to protect
ourselves, the desire to brush Jesus
off and say, “I’m just looking,” and
listen.
Following Jesus will be difficult, but worth it
Blyth’s five-year Campaign 14/19
initiative was created in 2014 as a
volunteer-driven force with three
stated objectives: fully renovate and
update Blyth Memorial Community
Hall; define the case for the
Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity
and create a fund or community trust
to support operations in challenging
circumstances.
Ambitious exciting and
successful, the 14/19 campaign will
be winding down this year.
“The remarkable restoration and
renovation of Memorial Hall
is complete. This $4.2-million
partnership was through a
collaboration with the Blyth Centre
for the Arts, the Province of Ontario,
North Huron Council and the
individual efforts of hundreds of
volunteers. This noble building is
continuing to provide new life and
energy to the community with its
improved amenities, state-of-the-art
connectivity and comfortable
spaces. Every one of us should feel
proud about the exceptional progress
we have achieve, together,” says
Steven Sparling, Chair, Campaign
14/19.
The current 14/19 leadership team
includes David Armstrong, Elli
Cohen, Rick Elliott, Karen Stewart
and Steven Sparling.
The final tasks for this group will
be to prepare for the transition from
the 14/19 campaign to the new entity
that will manage the next leg of the
journey: the Canadian Centre for
Rural Creativity, of which Peter
Smith is project/creative director.
“Blyth is a remarkable
community. Resilient, smart and
courageous. Creative new ideas are
being hatched here, in this place of
1,005 citizens, that are unthinkable
in almost any other small, rural
community. Opportunities are being
created and through these
developments Blyth is proving its
capacity to punch above its weight in
charting new paths at a time when
“rural” is being challenged like
never before. We have been host to
two highly-acclaimed Rural Talks to
Rural (R2R) Conferences, which
demonstrated the appetite of rural
leaders from across North America
and Europe to collaborate, discover,
create and in time, to help influence
what 21st century rural may look
like. We know that urbanization and
the clout of urban communities is
unprecedented and in this
environment rural and small towns
everywhere must find new and
compelling ways to remain viable,
relevant and innovative; to prove
their value and importance to all
society,” says Smith. “As someone
with one foot in Toronto and the
other in Blyth, I see this place as
privileged to be in position to help
lead the way for rural and small
town thinking and revitalization.
This is no longer talking about
survival, this is about planning for
success. Stay tuned.”
14/19 to transition to CCRC
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