Grace Canadian Reformed Church
10301 Creditview Rd L7A 0X3 Brampton, ON, Canada

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Thanks to Boekestyn Greenhouses and William Ravensbergen for sending us 2400 Easter Lilies! We were able to deliver the plants to over 2000 households in our local neighbourhood! The feedback has been overwhelming! Thank you to all our volunteers for spending four hours delivering the flowers. Happy Easter everyone and may we all remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in this Easter season. To him be the glory

Prayer for a Pandemic, by Cameron Bellm May we who are merely inconvenienced Remember those whose lives are at stake. May we who have no risk factors... Remember those most vulnerable. May we who have the luxury of working from home Remember those who must choose between preserving their health or making their rent. May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when their schools close Remember those who have no options. May we who have to cancel our trips Remember those that have no safe place to go. May we who are losing our margin money in the tumult of the economic market Remember those who have no margin at all. May we who settle in for a quarantine at home Remember those who have no home. As fear grips our country, let us choose love. During this time when we cannot physically wrap our arms around each other, Let us yet find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbors. Amen. See more

COVID-19 has been hard for everyone. We want to reach out to our neighbours in Mt. Pleasant and make sure everybody is doing OK.

From Pastor Eric: We need to reckon with the bad before we can know the good. And the bad is going to be bad. The virus is bad, and the economic consequences of the virus will be very bad. The virus and the ensuing coronarecession are the end of the good times for now.... It's possible that things will go better than I think they will. It's also possible that they will go just as bad as I think they will. A lot depends on the government responding effectively, and I don't have high hopes for that. After finally seeing this clearly, I became deeply saddened for about a day. It was a sort of sadness or almost a sense of being numb. At first I thought I was saddened because of the suffering ahead. But upon investigation, I realized that this sadness was not due to the potential suffering of myself or others, but due to something else. My sadness was a form of grief. I was grieving. Why, you ask? Well, I was grieving the life I thought I was meant to have here, now. A large and significant part of my soul was attached to pursuing and having the perfect life on this earth. I was looking forward to cool, interesting vacations, perhaps buying a new car, building a perfect backyard, and more. I grieved the loss of these things. But when I recognized why I was grieving, I then realized that if these things meant this much to me - then something was deeply wrong with my soul. I'm a Christian. My life belongs to Jesus, and Jesus is far better than any of this. And now that one of my idols is dying, I'm tasting and seeing that Jesus is so, so much better than the trinkets of a dying world. Jesus is eternal, and the lifestyle of this world is not. The coronavirus is simply God's gentle reminder of his own presence. It's his way of telling us the truth about our world. Our world is not a good place. It does not offer us eternity. It does not satisfy our deepest cravings and desires. Any attempt to build a truly good life on this earth - without God - is an illusion. Therefore, let the the bad of the coronavirus convince you of the good of knowing the only God who rules this world, and his Son - Jesus Christ. Don't waste this crisis by ignoring your eternal plight. In Jesus, you have eternity, love, grace and everything good. In him we realize that profoundly good God sent Jesus to graciously save profoundly bad man. So yes. Mourn briefly the life you thought you should have. Let the idols of the good times die. Then, accept the bleakness of our potentially terrible future. Then, when you've done that, look up to the very good eternal love of Jesus. In him, you will gain everything you need, and not just for the present. He's there, and he won't turn you away. Go to him.