On Sunday the Season of Creation began. Eco Congregation Scotland participates in a global, ecumenical project building care for Creation and the celebration of God, the Trinity, as Creator, into the regular Christian calendar.
It runs from the first Sunday in September to the Sunday closest to St Francis’ Day on 4th October.
In our worship we used a stilling video at the start and then a short filmed reading later on. Both of these links are in this reflection if you wish to look at them.
Notes:- you don’t sign up (there will be an X to delete that message) – just watch the short videos.
If you find the full screen logo on the bottom right of the video,
remember that you can EXIT that at the end by using your Esc key on your laptop which is at the top left corner of your laptop.
Hymn 716 in CH4 by Shirley Murray
Come and find the quiet centre in the crowded life we lead,
find the room for hope to enter, find the space where we are freed:
clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes, that we can see
all the things that really matter, be at peace and simply be.
Stilling video:- use https://vimeo.com/931802878
OR take time to imagine a quiet place you like to be that brings you peace.
In our readings, we were asked to think about the cost of discipleship.
Our discipleship, our promise to follow is not a way to earn salvation but rather our response to the salvation already ours through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The reading in Luke ch 14 vs 25 to 33 asks us to consider our priorities, to know what is expected of us on our journey with Jesus throughout our lives before we start out on a lifelong commitment.
A commitment that needs to be done repeatedly and continually. For we are not perfect and as life gets in the way, as we are faced with different challenges and decisions, as we make wrong choices, are motivated by selfish ends; we will get it wrong.
The reading in Jeremiah ch18 vs 1 to 11 (the potter) https://vimeo.com/1098291985
makes it clear that even when we get it wrong, and make a complete mess of things, God will, like the potter reworking the clay, give us another chance. The misshapen pot is not discarded, the clay is not wasted. It is reworked, reshaped, remodeled, until it is fit for use again.
