chanan lesli mattison

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shane leslie mattison (aka br chanan) was born in calgary alberta, canada. his parents were from saskatchewan and had him riding horseback there at a young age. he came to believe in the provenance of the great plains, of the heartland. ‘the people i met were honest, real people of faith,” a faith which sustained them - “the faith of our fathers.” he said as well that he knew early on that all was gift and grace. Its grace that “causes us to catch the breeze of presence, the rain of compassion, and the thunder of truth. even if i, sadly,” he says ” did my damnedest to be as prodigal as i could be!” its a kind of kris kristofferson or johnny cash outlook. shane might as well have taken his place alongside the highwaymen, with willie and waylon too. he and tom philips of the men of constant sorrow met up by similar happenstance, as he did with john hammond jr. “i played darts with john after my first marriage collapsed so i offered him my cowichan island sweater” which had been a present from his ex-mother-in-law. A time when, in kris’s words, “when no one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor.” And then, by the grace available and the holy sacraments turn to "the Christos" and "begin through the Spirit’s help to walk in the truth and the light, by offering up my life as a burnt sacrifice of love refined in the furnace." And the songs he left here were testimonies to a higher sense of calling than just a repeated "Gound Hog Day" for romance. it was rather a full c

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