Laughter

Prayer and laughter are inextricably linked because they both change the way we feel.

Rev. Gillean’s message for autumn newsletter

Dear friends, The Bible tells us there is a time for everything under the sun, but it doesn’t tell us just how quickly the time passes sometimes. The familiar cry of ‘where has the summer gone?’ is something that we will all have heard said in the last few days. Many of those plans that [...]

George Macleod

Read at the Sunday service on 4 September 2011. Excerpt from Ron Ferguson’s biography of George Macleod. The national Church of Scotland, which once commanded the allegiance of the bulk of the people of Scotland, was by 1843 reduced to one Presbyterian denomination against several. Its recovery by the end of the century was due in no [...]

Adam, where are you?

Read out at the Sunday service in Kilmory and Lamlash, 13 March 2011 Adam, where are you? No, I don’t take any responsibility, you see Lord, I didn’t actually pick the apple, so I’m completely blameless. No, Eve gave it to me and obviously I didn’t want to upset her; girls like her are a [...]

The Garden

Read out at the Sunday service in Kilmory and Lamlash, 13 March 2011 The Garden Behind our memory is the place we cannot remember where we took form and were at one with that beyond ourselves. Eden is a barren desert now. Its sapling apple trees are planted out into the world to yield fruit [...]

Count your Blessings 2011

Make Lent Meaningful Lent is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and give thanks for even our smallest blessings, and to turn our thoughts to those in need around the world. Count your Blessings is a creative way to pray for, and give to, the work of Christian Aid – reflecting on the good things in [...]

O Tell me the Truth about Love, W.H. Auden

Gillean read this poem out at the Sunday Service on 13 February 2011. O Tell me the Truth about Love W.H. Auden Some say love’s a little boy, And some say it’s a bird, Some say it makes the world go around, Some say that’s absurd, And when I asked the man next-door, Who looked [...]

People will remember…

“People will forget what you said People will forget what you do But people will never forget how you made them feel”. Submitted by Aileen Graham

Painting

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As we go about our activities, we will have a richer day when we think of ourselves as painting a picture instead of keeping score. Rather than woodenly completing a task, we might approach it as something that can be made [...]

Eternal Spring

Winter is on my head but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the world to come.  For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose and verse; but I feel that I have not said one-thousandth [...]

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