Doing some background reading for my sermon on 'Love and Hate' I came across something which kind of made me smile.  Here is J B Phillips talking about Amos:

We can imagine him as he preached in Israel at Bethel, the centre of religion but also of luxurious corruption, as rather like a hard Calvinist from remoter Scotland confronted by the worldliness and luxury of London, New York or Paris

J B Phillips Four Prophets London, Geoffrey Bless, 1963 p.3

A crofter from one of the islands maybe?

Of course this gives anyone with eyes to see a hint of the angle I will be exploring a week on Sunday!

PS Is 'remoter' actually a word?

This morning for the first time this year I popped in to see the Toddler Group... and was greeted with big hugs from the leaders.  It was lovely to see everyone again, to see how some of the children have grown, to see people I didn't know as well as familiar faces.

Good to take one more step back to 'normality'.