21 July 2024 - Sunday
When you come to the kirk, you come to a place apart. The ancient
walls define a space which we call sacred because of what happens here. We do
things together which have been done since time immemorial – we sing, we tell
stories, we dress up, we pour water, break bread, drink wine.
In our contemporary world, the scientists continually make
associations with these things and tell us how being together, singing songs,
acknowledging something that is bigger than ourselves, participating in playful
activity are all good for our physical and mental well-being.
But the world does not believe the scientists – and although that
is disappointing it is also comforting. For the world doesn’t believe that God
created the earth and Jesus is King of Kings so the world and the Kirk have to
cope with much disbelief! But we find joy in the living God and His Word!
For you shall go
out in joy
and be led back
in peace;
the mountains and
the hills before you
shall burst into
song
and all the trees
of the field
shall clap their
hands.
Isaiah 55;13
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