There has been an interesting contact made via the church website ( www.islandchurches.org.uk ) from a minister in the States near the Gulf of Mexico. So Sally, if you would like to send me your email address, I would be pleased to write back.
Today is packing-up day, and it is great to have willing visitors to act as “staff”. This is how it must have felt for clergy of long ago when they were of independent means. They could sit in an ivory tower – probably a cold study – and think great thoughts, whilst others scurried around doing the chores and providing cups of tea. Come to think of it, those “others” were probably wives. Thankfully, life moves on.
CalMac after lunch and then back to the metropolis of Oban and Balvicar. When I took on these island parishes, I did not realise the effort it would be to transport self, clothes, laptop, files and folders across many seas! Still – the people are worth it. I just hope they think I am.