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A message from our Interim Moderator Rev Dr Anne Logan:
A couple of years ago, at this time of year, we were fortunate enough to be on a cruise around the Western Isles. One of the highlights for many of our fellow travellers was the opportunity to see Puffins. Because we have been fortunate enough to sail for many years, we have seen lots of puffins, but it wasn’t until relatively recently that I realised that puffins spend most of their lives at sea, only coming ashore for the breeding season, and so for many people, they are a rare sight.
With their distinctive eye markings, bright beaks and awkwardness on land, puffins are sometimes referred to as the clowns of the sea. But puffins lose their bright beaks and eye markings as they head back out to sea for the winter and become very ordinary looking, drab little birds.
We often have bright faces that we put on for other people, yet those bright faces can hide what we feel. It is one of the most wonderful things about God’s love, shown to us in Jesus, that the cheerful masks are not necessary, God loves us, Jesus walks with us, the Holy Spirit guides us, just as we are.
In Psalm 139, the psalmist wrote about the wonder of being totally known by God, of there being nothing to hide from God, indeed there being nothing that we can hide from God - which for many of us is also an alarming thought! Let’s reflect this week on the joy of God who knows us and loves us as we are – a God who can see beyond bright masks and cheery faces and loves us totally.
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
O Lord, you know it completely.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is so high that I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and night wraps itself around me,
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you. (Ps 139)
Blessings!
Anne.
Worship This Sunday
Sunday 9th June - Rev Peter Graham - Currie Kirk at 10.30am
Intimations
There will be a Joint Service with Balerno Parish Church on Sunday 23rd June. Followed by a picnic. All are welcome.
Kirk News Articles to be with the editor, Isobel, by Friday 21st June.
Please send any photographs you have for our project - "The History of Currie through the Ages". Watch this space for an exciting event!
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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