by Leah Perrault | Dec 11, 2018
Dwelling is a strange concept. It’s a place and it sounds like an action: the relevance to Advent is both. The blanket fort that took over my home last Sunday was the perfect incarnation of both the noun and the verb. It was a space for the kids to occupy, at the...
by Leah Perrault | Nov 13, 2018
Photo Credit: Carla Chabot Energy is one of the great miracles of life. As the trees lose their leaves and preserve energy for the spring, I have been thinking about how I spend my energy, and what human dormancy looks like. The food we eat and the air we breathe is...
by Leah Perrault | Nov 8, 2018
After we are small children, it is rare that we are carried. Perhaps for a joke or dare, a photo op at a threshold, or in the case of injury, or in certain situations in old age? My baby is big enough now I rarely carry his full weight unless he is asleep. He lifts...
by Leah Perrault | Sep 11, 2018
Photo Credit: Blake Sittler Growing up in rural Saskatchewan planted a special place in my heart for the wildflowers that grow in the ditches. Blue alfalfa, purple thistles, bright yellow brown-eyed susans. When I moved to the city to study, I saw them less...
by Leah Perrault | Jul 10, 2018
I love words. They flow constantly from my head to my heart, spill out of my mouth with laughter, make sense of my world. And sometimes, words fail. They take the air from my lungs or hit me in the face. Sometimes, there isn’t sense to be made. We have more access...
by Leah Perrault | Jun 19, 2018
I have found God inescapable for most of my life. Even when I try to run away, there He is. God shows up in feeling and experience, touch and sound, churches and skies. Words generally show up after, inadequate but pressing to be spoken as a sort of verification of...
Leah Perrault
Leah Perrault is the Director of Mission at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon. When she’s not busy with her day job, she speaks, consults and writes on the side. She is blessed (or cursed, depending on the day) with words that cannot be contained. These words find a home at retreats, schools, conferences, book clubs, board meetings, church groups, articles, books and ~ hopefully ~ in the hearts of those who hear and read them.