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You are here: Home / Sunday Service / Meditation / The Road and the Miles to Dundee

The Road and the Miles to Dundee

May 22, 2011 by Cams

Read at the Sunday service on 8 May

“The road and the miles to Dundee”

sub-titled “funny thing that?”

We stopped to give him a lift as we turned onto the main road.

We were headed for Dundee and that’s what his sign said.

It looked a bit dog-eared but, well

he had a nice sort of smile

Don’t do it we’re told, they could be nutcases or murderers

But… and this is the funny thing.

We felt as if we knew him. Not a stranger.

Something like a memory…

Funny thing that?

The company was good

And as we stopped for coffee

The sun shone on us and we sat outside

Why we told him about our miseries, I don’t know.

I suppose we were suffering from shock.

The events of the last few weeks had left us

shaken and definitely stirred!

He didn’t seem to know anything

about the momentous happenings we had all experienced.

And so we gave him a hard time

And nearly dumped him at the next bus stop

But we didn’t.

Funny thing that?

He came with us..

All the way

And we sat down together to eat a meal.

When I think how we might have missed him

How we could so easily have driven right past

How is it that we only knew who he was when he broke the bread.

Funny thing that?

 

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