The pastors' column in Sunset Villa's bulletin - the Danish place west of Toronto.

The best way to end a day in the cottages on the West coast of Denmark is to sit on the beach or top of the dunes to watch the spectacular sunset. We saw it yesterday, today and again tomorrow and the view is the same: The big orange sun disappearing on the horizon.  

We can have the same spectacular view here in Canada - and worldwide - and no matter where we are, the sunset is alluring. 

We stop, look out on the far horizon (instead of down on a screen), take a moment of reflection and are touched by the feeling of being a small brick in a giant puzzle. 

I don't know why Sunset Villa and Sunset Mindepark are named after the sun's event of going down, but I can imagine it is because our beautiful place here in Ontario, full of fellowship and history, is like sunset for us coming there: A place of hygge and fellowship and maybe a time for reflection. 

For the last long year, we have been prevented from experiencing the fellowship in Sunset Villa - but despite the corona, the sun has risen and set every single day - an essential reminder that all will be good again.

I look forward to experiencing the sunset again - without a face mask and in "hyggeligt" fellowship with fellow Danes - in Sunset Villa, in our Danish Church in Toronto, like Canada or maybe at the West coast of Denmark.  

I wish you a blessed summer.

Pastor Simon Kangas Larsen