“The Sleeping warrior” Arran.
Rwanda adventure!
I have the enormous privilege of being out in Rwanda with Comfort International. Comfort International is a developmental charity, whose focus is to help rebuild lives of those affected by poverty, conflict and genocide. I am out visiting some of their partner projects, to support their work, and to meet some of the people involved.…
Spiritual detours.
The roads around Glasgow just now are difficult to navigate, with road works, road closures and diversions. That yellow diversion sign can strike fear into any driver, as the organisers seem to delight in omitting one sign from the sequence. All too often, you are on a diverted road, and then you come up to…
Saying thank you!
Recently I have been engaging with utility companies to get some work done in the house. This can be frustrating, involving endless phonecalls, changing passwords and protracted negotiations. However now and again, a company does something really good. They respond to your call, do what you ask promptly, and the repair is made. The interesting…
Locked in the bathroom
This morning, I was coming out of the bathroom, ready to face the day. I pushed down on the door handle, only for it to sheer off in my hand. It was a really stiff handle to start with, so try as I might, I just couldn’t get the door handle to budge. With a…
Choosing to walk in the light
The 21st of June is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, the day with the longest light and least dark. Sunrise today in Glasgow is 4.27am, and sunset 21.40 – giving over 17 hours of light. The light is so glorious, and such a contrast to the 21st of December when in Glasgow there…
Gaudi’s legacy…
Last year I had the privilege of visiting the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona. What a gorgeous, imaginative, exhuberant place of worship. It was the most amazing structure, the exterior with intricate carvings of the Nativity and Easter stories, and luscious motifs of plants and animals. And the interior was flooded with a kaleidoscope of…
Sunshine and showers
What a day- I have got soaked so many times, but in the midst of it all is such sunshine and colour. One minute you are wet and have soggy, squelchy shoes. Next minute, there is a rainbow reflected in the puddles- didn’t manage to capture that on camera though! Life feels like this just…
The concert.
I am not always a concert person, but this was an exception. I came to Mary Black’s final tour, because she was a singer that my late husband Colin introduced me too. We went to one of her concerts together many years ago, and so it seemed really fitting to come to this concert, as…
After waiting, Pentecost discovery.
We spend so much of our lives waiting. We start waiting with expectation and excitement, but as time goes on, we can lose energy and hope. We are still waiting, but we can become less trusting. We worry about what can go wrong, rather than being hopeful about what might change for the better. Today…
Yearning for justice.
There is so much injustice here and around the world- people at the back of the queue for surgery, trapped in a cycle of spiralling debt repayments, homeless on our streets, people facing discrimination and exploitation, languishing in refugee camps or facing persecution. So many people face prejudice and injustice because of where they were…
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