Amazing to wake up this morning to snow falling and on stepping out of doors to feel the icy blasts we thought we had left behind us. But I suppose it was the heat-wave of last week which was exceptional for this time of year. I remember one April after a heavy day in the University library stepping out and finding myself in the teeth of a blizzard. John Macleod of Allander Evangelical told me last night that his sister has a photograph of the hills of Harris covered in snow and that was last May.
There are not too many references to snow in the Bible but one of the best known verses in Isaiah says:
‘Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be as white as snow.’ (Isaiah 1: 18)
This time of the year is a reminder to us how this was finally achieved. The sacrifice of Jesus is the means whereby everything that would prevent our fellowship with God has been removed and it is possible for us through faith to be part of His family now and through all eternity.
Richard Tiplady began our Holy Week Services at St Luke’s last night. Pray for him as he struggles with the aftermath of what he described as ‘man flu’. We know all about that, don’t we boys?
It took Gabrielle four hours to get home from Braehead yesterday. We were keeping in touch by phone and she thought it might be a good idea if I gritted the hill leading up to the Manse in case she failed at the last slope. There is a grit bin in Grange Road opposite the Manse. So here we go! Heavy work it was but on the way up the lady did not falter.
