So this year’s run of Munro bagging commenced by climbing Moruisg. The forecast predicted the best weather would be in the west of Scotland and the route was relatively short, so I could get a proper night’s sleep before and hit the road well-rested. It took me about 2.5 hours to get to a layby where I parked my car,…
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Lucky coincidence. Bad luck. Unfortunate. Happy ending. Pure luck. These are just a few examples of the many phrases and expressions that we use every day to describe the happenings in our lives. They have in common the assumption that things can happen without any logical reason, cause or explanation. Moreover, things happen without our own input, or contrary to…
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To put it mildly, Thomas is rather reluctant to believe in Jesus’ resurrection! He makes his position on that very clear: ‘Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’ His words are…
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The sad, grieving women came to Jesus’ tomb to finish the traditional treatment of the dead which they’d had to abandon on the late Friday afternoon. Jesus’ lifeless body had hastily been laid down in the tomb as time had been running out. For the women it supposed to be the beginning of their mourning leading eventually to closure. Instead…
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We’ve just heard the story of Jesus’ torturous and violent death as told by St John. We’ve been listening to it year after year on each Good Friday. The same story told in the same way and heard many times can make us less perceptive or sensitive to it. Listening to this long story while standing up can be painful…