This morning I needed to book at train to London to meet a couple whose wedding I will conduct in Glasgow in December.  Despite what you might think, that's not the daft bit.  The daft bit is that it was cheaper to book two first class single tickets (£21 each) than one second class return (£65) - now that IS just plain daft.

I'm quite chuffed to have a special event already in my 'new' diary - just need to get to grips with the differences between Scottish and English marriage law now!  It seems more straight forward in Scotland than England...

D+2 have invited my folk to join them for a picnic and short act of worship on Sunday 16th August, and most of them want to go, so we're cancelling our service to attend.  I asked the organiser what the wet weather contingency was , 'oh, we're praying for good weather' I was told.  Biting my tongue quite hard, I then asked 'and if God says no...?'  Esentially, it would be abandoned, there was not much by way of contingency.

So now we are going to a picnic but if it is raining at midday we will instead gather at the manse for an impromptu service at our normal time.  Which means (a) mucking up my preaching scheme (mutter mutter mutter) and (b) having to have something to hand just in case.  So, do I capitulate and pray for sunshine (which feels like lousy theology to me) or have a standby sermonette on praying 'thy will be done'?!