THE ROTARIAN FEATURES AN ARTICLE ON GRIEF

SUMMER Grief Information  

and Support Group

WELCOME TWO NEW ADDITIONS TO OUR OFFICE FOR THE SUMMER

Shaylene Macdonald-Dyer is a student studying Counselling

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Renee Reeves is a student who has just finished at Columbia Bible College in Care-giving and Counselling and will be taking a summer student position as assistant to Kim in the Bereavement area as well as working on the Front Desk. 

From Chris Boyes - our Coordinator of Volunteers: 

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.     One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.       At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.  
For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water..  
Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.   But the poor cracked pot was ashamed  of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.  
After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.  
'I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.'  
The old woman smiled, 'Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?'       'That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.'       For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.  
Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.'       Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding..  
You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.    

 MOTORCYCLE RIDE FOR HOSPICE  

Saturday 27 August 2011

Join us for a fun motorcycle ride through the hills and lakes of Mission and over to Harrison Hot Springs with an ending BBQ and music at the Dewdney Pub.

click here for more information and registration   

Watch for our raffle of a Scooter around town - you can see it on display at Prospera Credit Union on July 20 to July 23 and at Scotiabank in August. 

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