This Sunday one of the activities I have planned is one that I have used in at least three other churches, and a variation upon which I did here nearly four years ago.  Whether anyone else will remember it remains to be seen.  Given that some of the children weren't born then, and several were under five at the time, I think it is safe enough to assume that they are unlikely to remember it, but if they do it's a bonus.  I am enjoying revisiting and revising it anyway.

I hope people enjoy the service - it is probably the most creative I've done for a long time - but I am aware that it does have marmite qualities and not everyone likes marmite...

On Saturday I had lunch with some friends, travelling with one of them by train between Glasgow and Falkirk.  In conversation it transpired that we both know, in very different contexts, the new rector of IBTS... she when he was a 'wee boy' and I from his time at SBC.  It made me chuckle, and it was good to discover yet another connection.

Then today I was out visting with some other folk and we got chatting about English teaching and the imapct of teachers on their pupils for good or ill.  A passing enquiry as to where one of them went to school revealed that they had been at the same schools as my mother, but three years behind her.

And so on and so-forth.  The world is smaller than we think, our lives intertwine more than we realise, the global village is maybe just that.

All good fun, and, if not very theological, it does make me mindful of how interconnected life really is, and how we should learn to care for one another.

This new venture sounds really exciting and full of potential.  Good to have been part of that story, albiet in a way that is now quite a distance in their past.  Wishing every blessing on this new project as a new season brings new growth, and in time another harvest to re-invest.

Today is going to be busy - and hopefully good fun.

Off in the next hour or so to church to lead worship on the theme of Ascension, with a side track via a quiz, some English literature and a couple of theologians.  Then over to the south-side for Sunday lunch.  Then back over the watter to an inter-church BBQ followed by a short, informal, communion service.  Then collect a house guest and bring her home - hope she can cope with the slightly chaotic state of my appalling house-keeping skills.

All good, all about communing and worshipping and relating and sharing and learng and growing...

But I will be glad of my lie-in tomorrow morning!