"In peace, I
will both lie down and sleep; for You alone, O
Lord, make me dwell in safety." Psalm 4:8
It is not
often that there is a great deal of Canadian news dominating the headlines in
the United States.
Other than the antics of former Toronto mayor
Rob Ford, Canada
tends to be the sleepy, easy to ignore neighbour to the North. We ship many of
our best hockey players, comedians, and theologians south of the border, but
most people just assume that they have always been from America. Canada
typically remains out of sight and out of mind. It is only on a rare occasion
such as yesterday that Canada
is thrust into the spotlight. On October 22, 2014, all over the U.S.,
and the world for that matter, major news networks covered the unfolding events
surrounding the deadly attack at the Parliament buildings of Ottawa
by a Quebec
man who had become radicalized into an extreme and violent Islamic ideology. What made
this event capture the attention of the wo…