Our Minister’s thought for the Day

Dedicated to the Church of Scotland congregation of Kirkmichael, Tinwald and Torthorwald

Dear Friends

Our access to the telephone line has come to an end but we will continue to email the reflection each week .

Sunday 1st December 

Dear Friends

Today  we meet at   at Torthowald to celebrate the first Sunday in Advent  9.45, tea and coffee after the service.

An Advent Reflection

 

If God’s really out there

Then why does he not see

How earth’s beauty is threatened

By profit and greed

 

“Why don’t you say something?

Get something done

To undo this mess

And keep it undone

 

Should you send flooding

Or fires or drought

Or a global pandemic

To sort us all out?

 

Would that make a difference?

Would that make a start?

Or must all ice caps vanish

Before you melt human hearts?”

 

Then through my ranting

A voice whispers “I know

My child I took action

A long time ago.

 

The solution was drastic

Giving all I was able

I dropped my incendiary

Ka-boom in a stable

 

The answer was sent

Without fire nor smoke

In the life of a child

Was born the world’s hope

 

The answer to violence

And hardship and war

Can never be always

to bring about  more!

 

Love & prayers

Mhairi