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Revelation 21.6


This Photograph of the restored Chancel area was taken on Friday 7th.May 2010. The sun was streaming in through the Stained Glass Windows. The workmen had just finished taking away all of the remainder of any evidence of their contract with us. .

All was still and quiet; - complete.

As has been felt on many occasions and by many, a sense of peace was with me.

I didn't know then,  but know now that William Findlay Turner, passed away after a lengthy illness on that Friday.   Now, he is also at peace.

During the struggle to maintain our building, Findlay as Chairman of the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland was a great strength and redoubtable source of reason and sense.
He allowed me, for one, to see the bigger picture, of the struggle which will come to the National Church over the next few years and to realise that what we were trying to do at Kelvinside Hillhead wasn't necessarily a selfish thing.

Many sacrifices and difficulties have been put to us, but perhaps as we go forward, towards a new way of 'being Church' we can remember wise words and sometimes difficult to hear words.  -------

But no-one ever said that The Way was easy ----------------

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