The Stranger in the Garden: A Field Guide for the Spiritually Misplaced

A Heretic Walk Through Estrangement, Self‑Authored Invisibility, and God’s Persistent Habit of Showing Up Anyway

(Inhale the incense) 

 

That’s the part humanity keeps tripping over — usually face‑first — while insisting the floor is at fault. The Bible’s relational baseline is embarrassingly clear: man meets God, they talk, they recognize each other. No fumbling for names. No “sorry, I’m terrible with faces.” No divine icebreakers.

And since people forget, let’s perform the Liturgy of  God's Non‑Strangers — the procession of individuals who are assumed to have spoken to God, often without scheduling an appointment:

How Long can Canada Survive a Massive Trade Disruption? Is Canada Living on Borrowed Time?

A Fictional STORM OF THE CENTURY 

 Worst‑Case Scenario: Pretend you live in a subarctic nation suddenly living  under leaders who believe in neither winter nor survival 

Originally Published Jan. 25, 2026

This isn’t about blaming a President for wanting to enforce law and order within his nation's borders. That is his responsibility. The concern lies closer to home.

Canada imports 75% of its fruit and 50% of its vegetables, so it is patently reckless for Canada's own leadership to posture and provoke without concept of the consequences. We are not the United States which can feed itself.

We cannot feed ourselves. We cannot even come close. We fall 50 percent or more short of feeding ourselves all year long.

The BC Right: A Riddle Wrapped in a Rupture Inside a Caucus Meeting

 Why the Opposition Keeps Collapsing Faster Than a Government Can Drift 

Who can make hide nor hair of the BC right? Eby, who inherited the NDP from the late John Horgan, didn’t exactly scrape past John Rustad; he won a majority while the right fractured into competing factions. In the political storms of the moment, the feeling of a close margin had lingered because Rustad’s Conservatives surged in the polls and briefly looked capable of replacing the NDP government.

The illusion of power forming on the right shattered again today.  The MLA who crossed today was Elena Lawson — Conservative to Independent, citing Findlay's leadership.

 The BC Legislature’s current standings tell the story: