Aurora Borealis video

http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=aurora%20borealis&tnr=21&vid=281205277306&l=193&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D281205277306%26id%3D3f6d918d7f4ee2bb0ea965b0e9aa0163%26bid%3DnmIyivS1pH0h%252fg%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253d7GThxWmmvvk&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7GThxWmmvvk&sigr=11at9t0co&newfp=1&tit=Aurora+Borealis+%28The+Northern+Lights%29

Otherwise known as the Northern Lights, I was priveleged about 20 years ago to see first-hand this amazing spectacle, though without the accompanying music. . .don't know if there's a southern-hemisphere variation of this.  All I know is that it's something everyone should see if given a chance.  sort of "Fire in the Sky"!

"Hallelujah": kd lang at the Winter Olympics 2010 Opening Ceremony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e26D3w5Glqk&feature=related

Leonard Cohen did the original version of this beautiful song and a wonderful job he did, but I am such a fan of kd lang that I want to share this version.  I regret that a close-up isn't possible, there were too many people there.  I also regret that I wasn't there but I did watch it on television!

Space Station photos

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/dec10/international_space_station.asp

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on the International Space Station leads a tour on the Space Station.  Six-picture slide-show.

Canadian Geographic magazine: photographs of animals from a contest

http://photoclub.canadiangeographic.ca/photos/wildlife_contest/category84308.aspx

I love Canadian Geographic magazine.  Many of the animal pictures in it are done by professional photographers but some are apparently by amateurs; excellent nevertheless.  Many wonderful shots here, too many for me to pick and choose.  You can decide for yourself what you like or don't like.

Taize Song--Wait for the Lord

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mLfr2vfbZk

My brother posted this to-day on Facebook, it's apparently for the First Sunday of Advent which is to-day.  I've not heard it before but think it's so beautiful as to be sublime and I want to share it here.

The Alpha Course

http://www.facebook.com/ukalphacourse#!/ukalphacourse

My wife and I recently attended the Alpha course at our church, Grace Community church and enjoyed it tremendously.  It looks at Christianity in a whole different light.  Example:  many people think that there is a very wide gulf between God and us.  There isn't though.  Really.  God, we believe, came to Earth in the person of Jesus, and lived and died for us, that we might be redeemed and given new life, a better direction for our lives.  And this is the gift that we are given through the Holy Spirit, that we might not only represent Christ, but have our God living in us.  Forever.  We send our prayers up (whichever direction that really is) and God's grace is sent to us. 

(The food is great too!)

Calvin and Hobbes discuss Heaven

This has always been a favourite comic of mine and miss it a lot.  I do get it sent to my e-mail every day.  Calvin is the boy and Hobbes is the tiger, real to no-one except Calvin.  To everyone else he's a stuffed animal.