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Sunday, 24 September 2023

Winter approaches

 


Seven hundred years of ownership. Seven hundred years.

Not that we’ve been owned, but the estate on which we live has been owned by the same family, generation after generation, since the time of Robert the Bruce.

So the Laird and his Lady treated us lesser mortals to a piece of pizza, a glass of prosecco, a piper, bonfire and fireworks last night to celebrate with them. He expressed the thought that they might just carry on another seven hundred years…

We milled around with our neighbours, layered against the cold.

Community. We were made to live our lives together, not staring into devices, alone in our rooms or cars. Churches are great gathering places, but with so few committed believers these days we need to find other ways of being with people who share some sort of connection, even if it is nothing more than living in the same neighbourhood.

The world will know you believers, Jesus said, by the way you love one another.

May I live my life as Jesus did, lit from within by his love and light.

 

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