Keeping You in the Loop December 2021
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Rev Mairi Perkins conducted the Service on Sunday, 21st November 2021.
Christ the King Sunday
Order of Service 21st November 2021
Ardoch Hot Chocolate and Pins & Needles patches are now part of this striking installation on the towers of New College overlooking Princes Street. This very visible artwork will raise awareness of Climate Emergency and the COP meeting in Glasgow and be a faith-based statement of support for the COP26. The patches are easily indentified – congratulations to everyone involved.
Thought For The Week
Here are some obvious things about the weather:
It’s real.
You can’t change it by wishing it away.
If it’s dark and rainy, it really is dark and rainy, and you can’t alter it.
It might be dark and rainy for two weeks in a row.
BUT
it will be sunny one day.
It isn’t under one’s control when the sun comes out, but come out it will.
One day.
It really is the same with one’s moods, I think. The wrong approach is to believe that they are illusions. Depression, anxiety, listlessness – these are all are real as the weather – AND EQUALLY NOT UNDER ONE’S CONTROL.
Not one’s fault.
BUT
They will pass: really they will.
In the same way that one really has to accept the weather, one has to accept how one feels about life sometimes, “Today is a really crap day,” is a perfectly realistic approach. It’s all about finding a kind of mental umbrella. “Hey-ho, it’s raining inside; it isn’t my fault and there’s nothing I can do about it but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow, and when it does, I shall take full advantage.”
Stephen Fry
