Stuff about me
I am a Church of Scotland minister living by the sea. This blog holds my current ramblings on faith ... life and all the random clutter in my head. My old blog from June 2006 – August 2010 was called Rumours of Angels. It is now private view only. If you would like permission to view just leave a comment.
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Category Archives: Friendship
On forgiveness…
There has been a lot of good stuff written about forgiveness this Easter time. Forgiveness is something we can do for another person and forgiveness is something we do for ourselves – something which helps us to move on with … Continue reading
Posted in Forgiveness, Friendship, growing up, Lent and Easter
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Easter blessings
If you were not risen, Lord Christ, to whom would we go to discover a radiance of the face of God? If you were not risen, we would not be together seeking your communion. We would not find in your … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, Faith, Friendship, Holy Week, Hope, Lent and Easter, Ministry, Prayer, Sacred Space, worship
Tagged Brother Roger of Taize, Revgalpals
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letting go…
Some prayerful thoughts for Wednesday about letting go of our most human failings: Lord – let our memory provide no shelter for grievance against another. Lord – let our heart provide no harbour for hatred of another. Lord – let … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, Grace, growing up, Lent and Easter, Love, Ministry, Perspective, photographs, Prayer
Tagged photobotos
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Not knowing…
i was happy before in the ignorance of not knowing i was living without you but now you are more present in your absence than any of the things around me that i can touch with certainty at any time … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Friendship, Mystery, Poetry, Theology
Tagged hold this space, Mike Lockie, RS Thomas
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Halleluiah
Everyone should be born into this world happy and loving everything. But in truth it rarely works that way. For myself, I have spent my life clamoring toward it. Halleluiah, anyway I’m not where I started! And have you too … Continue reading
Posted in dreams, Faith, Friendship, growing up, Perspective, Poetry
Tagged Mary Oliver
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Darkness revisited…
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. (Mary Oliver) I have come across this quote in a few places recently so I thought I … Continue reading
Assembly ripples…
Have rather neglected the blog of late, partly because I have been at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh and am only now getting back into some sort of routine. I didn’t take my laptop with me … Continue reading
Posted in Church of Scotland, Faith, Friendship, General Assembly, Ministry
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On risk taking (3)…
As it turns out, every map has an artificial edge prescribed by those who define its scope; who draw the thick black line, however arbitrarily, around the edges of the world. But here, at the edge of the map, where … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Friendship, growing up, Hope, Ministry, Poetry
Tagged hold this space
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Love and laughter…
Sometimes life gets a little too serious… so good advice here: “Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part … Continue reading
