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A message from our Interim Moderator Rev Dr Anne Logan:
Earlier this week, we were out gathering brambles in the local park. A lady came past, walking her dog. We started to discuss the joys of brambles – nature’s bounty. We then went on to discuss growing fruit in the garden and she explained that she had a great crop of strawberries this year. I commented that I had given up on the strawberries as I never seemed to manage to protect them from the pigeons. She answered that she didn’t mind if the birds helped themselves because, after all, the birds need to live too. It was a salutary reminder to me that we do indeed, share this planet with all sorts of other creatures and we have a responsibility to care for them all. In Genesis we are reminded that:
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. (Genesis 2; 15 – 17& 19 – 20)
God has charged us with the welfare of all creation and perhaps I need to be a bit less precious about the things that are grown in my garden. Although I always speak of what ‘I’ have grown, truthfully, it is God who grows the plants and all God’s creatures have their place.
Mind you - it may be a wee while before I manage to forgive the marauding gull that stole my Nardini’s ice cream out of my hand at Largs last week!!
Blessings! Anne
Worship this week
Sunday 1st September. Currie Kirk at 10.30am. Rev Susan Galloway.
Intimations
Guild: Starts again on the 3rd September.
Transport: Remember you can use a taxi to get to Church on a Sunday morning if needed and claim a refund (just keep your receipt).
Photos: There are photos from the days Celebration Weekend now on our website and in this issue of the Kirk News!
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