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Still in good heart.


There have been many times over the last few months when it has seemed that we at KH have undertaken an almost hopeless task.
It is now 10 months since the Storm which started this train of events, and another winter approaches. The roof is still not fixed, the window is out and the entrance hall has had plaster removed. ----- But that could actually be a good thing. It shows that we are still here and progressing our planned course of repairs.
The funding is difficult, especially now with the "Credit Crunch" and "Economic downturn", but we never did think it would be easy.
I attended an event this evening to celebrate 20 years of assisted living in Glasgow. One of the residents of the House in question reminded me that the idea of the big windows in"my Church" was to "let more of God's Colours Shine!" So true!
So I think we just have to realise how fortunate, we as a congregation have been, to have had the "big windows" to ourselves for so long and to have had the music from the Willis Organ.
We still do have them; they are just more precious for their temporary absence.
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