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Daily Worship in Peebles Old Parish,10am Daily Worship Leaders May/June Mon. 6th Lily Swinney Psalm 121 May Tues. 7th Janette Cameron Ezek 1:26‐2:1 Wed. 8th Charles Aitchison Isa 6:1‐8 Thur. 9th David Donaldson Ezek 11:1‐25 Frid.10th Marjorie Renton Ezek 20:39‐44 Sat. 11th Elizabeth Parker Ezek 28:25‐26 Mon. 13th Haisley Moore Ezek 37:15‐28 Tues. 14th Frances Carrol Ezek 45:1‐9 Wed. 15th Wilma Barrett Psalm 100 Thur. 16th Tom Fairbairn Psalm 148 Frid. 17th Elspeth Knowles Dan 7:13‐14 Sat. 18th Janet Macdougall Dan 7:27 Mon. 20th Alistair Robertson Acts 11:19‐26 Tues. 21st Geoff Goldstraw Acts 11:27‐30 Wed. 22nd Isabelle Coghill Luke 10:25‐28 Thur. 23rd Calum Macdougall Psalm 67 Frid. 24th Mary Wight Acts 16:1‐8 Sat. 25th Rachael Forsyth Luke 19:1‐10 Mon. 27th Lily Swinney Psalm 93 Tues. 28th Janette Cameron Rev 21:15‐22 Wed. 29th Charles Aitchison Luke 2:25‐38 Thur. 30th David Donaldson Luke 24:44‐53 Fri. 31st Marjorie Renton Rev 22:6‐9 Sat 1st Pauline Copeland Psalm 97 Mon. 1st Lily Swinney Rev 19:1‐8 June Tues. 2nd Mary Wight Rev 19:9‐10 Wed. 3rd Calum Macdougall Luke 9:10‐17 Thur. 4th Charles Aitchison Phil 2:19‐24 Frid. 5th Janette Cameron Phil 2:25‐3:1 Sat. 6th Elizabeth Parker Psalm 126 From early in their history, the church has developed forms of daily worship. At the Reformation, the people were encouraged to join in daily worship in their parish churches, and the 1564 book of Common Order made provision for daily services.
Pastoral letter May 2019 With the retirement date (30th September) having been announced, a concerted effort is already underway in the manse to clear as much clutter as possible, so that the process of downsizing to our next house, in which we fully expect to have fewer rooms and considerably less space, can be as simple as possible. As anyone who has undertaken a similar exercise knows well, it is quite a challenge. I’m sure you won’t be surprised to know that for us one major area to be addressed is the bookshelves. Dozens of theological books are currently on their way either to the annual Christian Aid Book Sale at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church in Edinburgh or to New College, Edinburgh, while other volumes of a more general nature will probably find their way onto the bookstalls at the forthcoming Flower Committee and Guild of Friendship Sales in the MacFarlane Hall. Despite all the good intensions, however, the clearance is proving to be time-consuming. Every now and again there appears a book that particularly arouses interest, leading to inevitable delay while several pages or even several chapters are read before it finds its way to the appropriate pile. Some of my father’s sailing books come into this latter category. We did a lot of sailing as a family in my youth and though I was much more interested in being on the boat, than I was in reading about it, recent scanning of the pages of some of those handbooks has rekindled a host of memories. Hugely exhilarating as yachting can be, I have vivid recollections of my great frustration, particularly before I grasped what sailing was all about. As a wee boy, quite simply I could not understand why, under sail, we could not travel in a straight line from A to B. Tacking was a mystery to me: apparently veering in one direction and then another, this sometimes repeated several times, when the intended destination lay directly ahead. As I learned more I realised of course that understanding and using the wind to advantage is both one of the challenges and one of the joys of travelling under sail and the closer to the wind one sails the greater the progress that can be made. As I reflect on thirty-eight years of parish ministry I recognise many instances of similar “tacking” along the way. With the gift of hindsight we can often see that
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