Category: congregation

OK congregation(s) — (and anyone else who wants to join in) — this blog is getting to be more and more idiosyncratic. What would you like from it? Suggest a topic. Ask a question. Else we are in real danger of it becoming ‘Kimberly’s blog’.

Someone cleverly brought their camera to Holy Trinity this morning. Perhaps we can do the same in St Paul’s next week…

 

 

 

 

 

Brian Dinely, from the congregation in Dunoon, offers the following reflections on knowing when to perservere, and when to let go:

Self-Doubt Destroyed?

Set not your hand to the plough – and abandon the furrow,
Set not your step to the steep – and relinquish the hill,
Lay not your plans for the years – and despair of tomorrow
But trust in God’s goodness and Spirit to justify all.
What is this visceral instinct that bids you continue?
What is the power that keeps your ambition so pure?
Knowing Creation’s unfolding is active within you
And through you will give you the reason and will to endure.

–Brian F. Dineley. 5 November 2004

To have tackled a task to the best of our abilities and failed in the ttempt is to succeed in living. We may not win every time but we triumph when we try!

— BFD. 11 January 2007.

The above poem was written to encourage someone who was struggling ith “the Establishment” and apparently hopeless odds, hence the itle. The second piece was written for myself – but belongs to everyone!

Are these two incompatible philosophies or different facets of the same Truth? I particularly love the final phrase “We triumph when we try!” – Brian.

So we begin. This is a blog for the congregations of Holy Trinity, Dunoon and St Paul’s, Rothesay in the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles in the Scottish Episcopal Church. It is a place to share news, to share ideas, and to see if this business of blogging can help us to grow in Christ.

It may be that there will be others, further afield, who will join us on our journey. It may be that our conversations will be of use to those we never see, that our lives will be enriched by their presence, that Christ will come in unexpected ways.

So join in — or just watch. Make suggestions. Ask questions. Lets see where it will lead.