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A message from our Interim Moderator Rev Dr Anne Logan:
This Sunday is celebrated in many traditions as Transfiguration Sunday, it marks the climax of the season of Epiphany where we have been focussed on seeing God in Jesus, recognising that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine. While our world seems perched on an abyss of uncertainty and the fragile consensus of peace is threatened, it is a timely reminder, that the God whom we worship has already experienced the worst that humans can do.
On a recent visit with the grandchildren and we visited the Riverside Museum. I was struck by the reflections in the glass of Zaha Hadid’s amazing building. As always with a reflection, we see enough to know what the reflection is, yet it is distorted and not quite true.
Paul wrote ‘for now we see in a mirror dimly,’ and it remains true, that we only have an imperfect vision of reality. Our understandings of what is happening on the world stage will be both informed and misinformed, because in our generation, ‘truth’ and ‘facts’ are much contested and are already a major battleground. Meantime, we trust in the God who is ‘our refuge and strength.’
If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part, but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love remain, these three, and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13)
Blessings! Anne
Worship This Sunday
Sunday 2nd March - Currie Kirk at 10.30am. Rev Susan Galloway.
Intimations
Messy Church — On Friday 14th March from 2-4pm. Fun and Games. Crafts. Bible Stories.
Lent Study Group — St Joseph’s Centre in Balerno. Sunday evenings at 7pm. From 9th March — 13th April. To book a place email: Bpcadmin@balernochurch.org.uk
Session Meeting Dates — Tuesday 25th March.
Tuesday 20th May — evening in the Kirk House.
Guild Meeting — Tuesday 4th March at 10am.
Guild Daffodil Tea — Saturday 22nd March at 2-4pm. Tickets £5. Donation for Tombola and Book Stall welcome.
If you want any information or need to speak to someone please call the Kirk office (451 5141) or contact one of the Session Clerks - Louise Lamont (07910 594188) or Isobel Webber (07702784186).
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