A special Sunday morning
This morning we left home early to attend the 9:30 AM service at St. Paul's Bloor Street Anglican Church in downtown Toronto . However, along the highway we encountered an unusually heavy traffic jam, something quite unexpected on a Sunday morning. For more than an hour, traffic barely moved. Soon we learned the reason. Someone was attempting to jump from an overhead bridge, and the police had closed the highway while they tried to dissuade him. Officers walked along the line of cars explaining the situation. One impatient driver asked whether at least one lane could be opened so traffic could proceed. The officer responded calmly but firmly: they were trying to save a life, and everything else was of lesser priority. He asked everyone for patience. That statement stayed with me. We are trying to save a life, and everything else takes less priority. In that moment, the words echoed something far deeper, the urgency of the mission entru...