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Burke Family Update.. Jobs, Ministry, Potties, and Cold Weather!

January 23, 2013 — Leave a comment

It dawned on me this week that I haven’t given you guys a family update in quite a while.. and I’ve got to say, a LOT has changed since November 6 (thats when I posted our last family update). Shame on me I guess for not keeping our friends up to date on things. Though I guess most of you have been kept up to date through phone calls and texts.. so chances are not much of what I’m going to post is going to be new to many of you.

We are certainly well settled into our new home here on “the Island” with my parents, and things have been going great. We had a fantastic Christmas with them. Christmas day was a blast, as the boys were both old enough this year to enjoy it! The looks on their faces were priceless as they opened gifts and just had a blast. We had 14 people over for Christmas dinner, which consisted of the regular turkey dinner, but also a maritime classic, jiggs dinner.. my friends in Ontario no doubt are drooling! When we first moved to Ontario, Jen and I had our whole church over to our place for jiggs dinner.. and even 7 years later people were talking about that “crazy young couple who invited the whole church into their home, even though they were a new couple in the community”. It was a great time with our family. We haven’t had a time like that in YEARS!
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In Faith, Family, God, Health, Ministry, Newsletter, People, Prayer
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Totally Confused By Canada’s Health System

November 23, 2012 — Leave a comment

Today I went to a walk-in clinic in Charlottetown.. the free one, because the one i went to last month cost me $40 because even though I live in PEI, I don’t have my PEI health card yet, because it take 3 months for them to get to you.

The reason I’m going to the walk-in clinic is because we don’t have a doctor yet.. why you ask.. well because like every other province in Canada, PEI has a shortage of doctors, so the day we moved to PEI, we called the “number” and had our names put on “the list” and we will get called when there is a doctor who is accepting patients.

Here’s where my confusion is. I take a number of medications for my back. For those of you just tuning in, I have 7, yep, 7 herniated and 2 compressed disks in my back. I’ve been dealing with it now for about 5 years. Doctors aren’t sure why, I didn’t have a terrible accident or anything like that. They think it may be because between grade 9 and 10 I went from being the smallest kid in my class, to being the tallest kid in my class.. and now I’m medically considered to be a giant..and theres a chance that my spine didn’t grow as fast as the rest of me.
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In Culture, Faith, Family, God, Health, Just Sayin, Prayer
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My Social Media Fast Day 2

February 23, 2012 — Leave a comment

If you follow me on Twitter, or are friends with me on FaceBook, no doubt you’ve noticed a lack of posts by me over the last 36 hours. Here’s why!

For the last year or so, I’ve felt at different times that God might want me to do a fast.. but not a “ditch the food” fast, instead a tech fast. I’ve never really heard a booming voice telling me to, but at times, I’ve just had a feeling that it would be healthy for me to get off of facebook and or twitter for a little while. On Tuesday night, I was laying in bed, around 11pm watching a movie, and chatting with people over twitter, and it dawned on me “Lent starts in a hour”.. and out of no where, thought that if there was a good time to give up facebook and twitter, now would be a really good time to do that.
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In blogging, Faith, Family, God, God Time, Health, Ministry, Prayer, Worship
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The Great Hike

June 17, 2010 — 1 Comment
This is Dana Meise. I met him today when I was in Tweed at the coffee shop. He walked in with a giant back back, gps and a bunch of other gear.. I figured he was either crazy, or was on some kind of adventure.. and an adventure is a major under statement! Dana is WALKING across Canada using the Trans Canadian Trail, which is a walking trail that stretches all across Canada. The trail is 18,078 KM long (thats 11,233 miles) and Dana is walking it. He isn’t doing it straight through though, he walks for 6 months at a time starting up the next year in the same place he left off.

If you run into Dana, please take the time to say hi to him, buy him some lunch, give him a place to stay. He’s got a few rules that he has given himself, the main rule being that, he’s not allowed to ask for anything. He walks all day and sleeps in a tent by night, but due to the kindness of many people across the eastern part of Canada has only stayed in his tent a few nights, because people are providing places for him to stay at night. We wanted to offer him a place, but our house was quite a bit off of his path, so I didn’t want to create more walking for him than necessary.

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My Thoughts on Apples “Freedom From Porn” Step

June 15, 2010 — 1 Comment

Apple has been getting a LOT of hate in regards to their attempt to make the iPhone/iPad “free from porn”. It all started back when they removed “inappropriate” apps from the app store. It cause a lot of uproar from what I am deeming as “losers who sit in their parents basements looking at porn on their iPhone”.. maybe a little harsh.. but likely some truth to it.. I’ve read many personal blog posts about peoples complaints and the idea of “if I want to look at porn on my iPhone I’m going to.”

Let me be honest. I hated strolling through the app store, looking through (for example) the featured apps, and being bombarded by “giggle boobs” or “pasties” or any of the other thousands of apps that were in the app store. Honestly they are completely pointless. How much of a pervert do you have to be, that you are going to want an app where you take take a photo of a girl, select the area where her boobs are and make them bounce? SERIOUSLY?? I think that’s probably how rapists of this century will get their start (maybe not.. but really.. how necessary is that?)
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Oh How I Hate Hospitals..

May 2, 2010 — Leave a comment

I will start off by writing about a VERY positive experience I once had at a hospital. It was March 2005, I had taken my youth group skiing during the March break. In our city, every time a pastor took a group of teens skiing, the pastor always ended up in the hospital.. so my friends all joked with me, telling me not to hurt myself.. but being an accomplished snowboarder, I figured it would be my wife who was the hurt pastor that year. Sure enough, I did end up in the hospital, with a tree limb through my arm.

I arrived at the hospital, and right away was being taken care of by a young male doctor, maybe in his early 30′s. He was very concerned for my arm, he wouldn’t even leave my bedside, any time he was paged, he passed the message on to a different doctor. I arrive in the hospital around 3pm, and this doctors shift ended at 5, so as his shift was coming to an end, he brought the new shift in, and told them all about what was going on, then he left. At 6pm he appeared back by my bedside. I said “I thought you were off, why are you back” his reply was humbling.. he said “I was at home, in my kitchen making supper and I couldn’t stop thinking about your arm, so I had to come back in.” He spent the rest of the night with me. Once the tree limb was removed, and the infection seemed to be calming down, he left, but many times during the week he came back to check on me (as I was in the hospital for about 2 weeks). This was by far the most amazing experience I’ve ever had with a doctor in the hospital.
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