Friday, March 29, 2013

After the ninth hour

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Dead. That’s about it, really - dead inside my head, dead inside my heart as we lift the dead weight of our friend who was more ...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Love your neighbours?

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How does a Christian know she is living out her faith in her everyday life? (I'm not excluding chaps here, not at all, but I'm a she...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Yes, I'm still reading ...

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It's been a while since I last reviewed a book - November saw the last, I think - and I've almost forgotten what I've read since...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Costly love

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It seems to have been several years since we observed Mothering Sunday in Holy T - if my files of past Intercessions are anything to go by, ...
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Saturday, March 09, 2013

A Lenten poem

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Road through the Nevada desert Eyes wide open One pale, quiet morning,  I open my soul’s eyes  unarmed with faith or company,  ...
Friday, March 08, 2013

A ridgewalk with the Third Age

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A suitably splendid scene for a brief retrospect on last week's Argyll and The Isles Diocesan Synod, the above photo shows the moment...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Seeing the daffodils

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Yesterday I posted about suddenly realising I could still feel what it was like to experience the world as when I was a child. And toda...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

LIfe in the bubble of wonder

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On the boat Originally uploaded by goforchris . Do you remember being a child? Oh, yes ... all these years ago ... But do you real...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Just war memories in Lent

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I went to the first meeting of the Lent Course today and found myself involved - or perhaps trying not to get too involved, or trying not to...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

A fashion for penitence?

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Ash Wednesday. It snowed all morning, and now the rain is washing down the windows - but judging from the whiteness of the roofs opposite ...
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Friday, February 08, 2013

Pure dead relevant

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The other evening - well, more like teatime - I attended an Information Evening in the University of Glasgow Medical School, the atrium o...
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Thursday, February 07, 2013

Talking posh

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Just before I left the house this morning, I caught a snatch of Call Kaye on the radio. Should we be insisting that our children talk 'p...
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Sunday, February 03, 2013

Rebus in arduis *

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It's Sunday. You've celebrated Candlemas, because you could - a day late, but in the boondocks you can't celebrate too often and...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

A very Pisky hoolie

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Choir at work Originally uploaded by goforchris . Other people have posted about last Saturday's lovely service in the Cathedr...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

An anniversary

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George Douglas, 1888-1973. It's a while since I first mentioned George James Cosmo Douglas, onetime Dean of the diocese of Argyll a...
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Thursday, January 03, 2013

The road goes ever on and on ...

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A very holiday thing to do - though for the past few years one we've kept till the day the schools went back - is to make the trip to ...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Lights in the darkness

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..and more candles Originally uploaded by goforchris . All right - I'm late with a blog post on Christmas . Tough. I've no...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Prayer and prayers.

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I was listening to Desert Island Discs yesterday - or rather, it was on in the background and I suddenly became interested. The castaway ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Random Russian phone notes

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The White Lake, from Kirilov I was pottering about on my phone the other day - the sort of thing you do while sitting on the ferry - an...
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Thursday, December 06, 2012

Warmth, light and love: the Advent journey

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If you're really old - a silver surfer par excellence - you might remember this book: Footprints in the Snow , by the author with the ...
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