Dear Friends, As I write this letter I can see three fox cubs playing in our garden whilst their mother sits on our garden wall diligently watching over them. They appear each evening through a gap in our fence and they have brought us delight but also damage as the mother has dug a [...]
who is recovering from surgery. To my beloved congregation of Lenzie Old, I am finding it really hard not to prepare online worship etc at the moment but I am signed off for three weeks and I know I need this time to heal and rest. I asked Wendy to put a lovely poem [...]
Christ’s Church is not closed! The doors may be shut and locked, the lights out in The building up the street But the Church isn’t closed. We may be told to stay at home, self isolate, We may be ill or too frail to come, We may be disillusioned with the institution, or with [...]
After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. He took her by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha koum!’ (which means ‘Little girl, I say to you, get up!’) Immediately the girl stood up and [...]
FAMILY GIFT SERVICE REFLECTION read at Lenzie Old on the 8th Dec 2019 There’s Elfingrove, Christmas markets, Botanical illuminations, Forests lit up in silver and gold…… There’s breakfast with Santa, Lunch with the reindeers, Christmas dinners and parties, and celebrations galore…… And in George Square, amidst the smell of fried onions, and hot doughnuts, amidst [...]
‘But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for [...]
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and ‘sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by all her children. Luke Ch7, v34-35. When I look back at my childhood some of the fondest memories I have are associated [...]
Dear God, in a world which is so full of beauty and pain, loveliness and cruelty we hold onto your transcendent presence at times with the mere brush of our fingertips. Life is so fickle, here today - gone tomorrow and the secular narrative conveys to us that that's it - but in our brutal [...]
As a child I grew up with two apple trees in our garden. In September my father and I would spend happy hours whacking the branches with a pole and trying to catch the apples before they hit the ground. The apples were bagged and given to friends and neighbours to make bramble and apple [...]
The Three Mile an hour God A homily preached at Carntyne Parish Church on the Tuesday of Holy Week 2018. John 12: 20-36 ‘I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.’ V24 I [...]
