canada day

This year Canada Day was spent bike riding all morning at our favorite local park, a few hours inside to escape the worst of the heat and then downtown to meet up with our friends Chris, Heather and their girls for all the celebrations along and around the Inner Harbour and Legislative Buildings. It was great to get out and join the crowds ... yet if you've seen the news it was amazingly at the very place we were sitting listening to the music that homegrown bombs were placed for a Canada Day attack in the middle of all those families and children. A Canadian couple had been closely followed since February and so this attack was known but it was needed to have them place the bombs in order to arrest and charge them. In fact the public was never at risk because investigators had been monitoring the couple’s actions for months, using covert techniques to make sure the devices were unable to explode, and yet the intent was there to create maximum impact and harm to Canadians. You can read about it here on the Times Colonist. It was a strange feeling to read about this the next morning and to know we weren't just in the same city or a nearby neighborhood but we were in the exact location. Never in any real danger as the plot was thwarted from the beginning but still gives you pause to think that even Victoria was on someone's mind to harm. Yet I know that whatever happens in life, whether for good or for evil, God is in control. I love this quote by Corrie Ten Boom "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God". Ok, I'm not giving this one more word of attention ... all this never-to-happen drama aside, it was a great Canada Day in our new city with new friends. I'm grateful to live in such an amazing country.