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The life and thoughts of Freda Marshall, a retired Church of Scotland minister living amongst the mountains and glens of Argyll.Pages
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January
This photo sums up January: bleak, stark, wondering……. but at least there’s no snow.
Dilemma
So – today is 25 January – what do I write about? The Conversion of St Paul or Robert Burns? I have to confess to feeling somewhat iffy about Burns; I place the blame firmly on being brought up in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aske's, Damascus, Eva Cassidy, Grammar School, love, My love is like a red red rose, Robert Burns, spirituality, St Paul
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Once a reader
Once a reader, always a reader – so the saying goes, and it is certainly true of me. Depending on my frame of mind I always have the appropriate book to hand; if not, I simply pick up another. Current … Continue reading
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Tagged ageing, books, Hugo Vickers, laughter, meditation, Michael Mcintyre, spirituality, The Queen Mother, Tolstoy
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The right kind of church
Thanks to Rev Shuna for pointing me to this advice. The full blog post can be found here. I’d love to know what you think. Here is a step-by-step plan for how to get more young people into the church: … Continue reading
Celtic Prayer
Sacred Space 2011 arrived in time for the start of Advent – excellent! I ordered from amazon.com and it came from amazon Germany. (Possibly because of a large USA army force resident there?) The prayer at the beginning is an … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Poems and Prayers
Tagged Celtic prayer, Sacred Space, Snowy statue, spirituality
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Embracing change
Part of my meditation and prayer routine is to use the prayer suggestions produced by the Jesuits in Indiana, USA. And most years I have managed to buy this online via amazon. Unfortunately this year it seems to only be … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Church Year, Prayer, Sacred Space, spirituality
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Chocolate cake and Kings
Today has been one of those nothing days, you get up, it is light, you sit down, you do one or two emails, you look up and it is dark. And what has been achieved? Nothing very much. Actually that … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate cake, Coeliac disease, Divine, engagement, gluten-free, God, Kate Middleton, mystery, Prince William, spirituality, The Force
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As near as a prayer
Sometimes all we need to do is to look around us at the beauty of creation, then when we take a breath we know that we are connected with one another throughout the world. Your joys are my joys and … Continue reading
Armistice Day
At 11am today millions of people kept a 2mins silence to mark the end of the 1st World War. I looked at my watch too late, but this blog post is a way of remembering all those who die in … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, Armistice Day, God, peace, Prayer, Remembrance, spirituality, terrorism, Wars
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Common-sense Wisdom
During my journeys through cyberspace I came across this link for an article in the Huffington Post. I had never encountered Rabbi Shmuley Boteach before, so I looked up his website and was impressed with his common-sense approach to life … Continue reading