When I arrived at the Al Shurooq School this morning with a couple of visitors from Scotland, I took a picture of one of the old olive trees which supplied the olives for our olive oil (see below). Ten minutes later, from the safety of the building, I was taking another picture of it – [...]
Archive for November, 2011
….and more rain
Posted in Church of Scotland on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rain, Rain, Rain
Posted in Church of Scotland, tagged Al Shurooq School for Blind Children, harvest, Jaffa, Jayyous, Jerusalem, olive oil, rain, scotland on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It has rained here every day for the last week. From our flat, which is high up, we can look across West Jerusalem and see which parts of the city are getting rain. The experience is quite Scottish, in the sense that you never know when the rain is going to catch you out. On [...]
Meeting young Palestinian Christians from Jerusalem
Posted in Church of Scotland, tagged Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, falling in love, friends, Gilmerton, ID, Jerusalem, Leith, lonely, Palestinian Christians, West Bank on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I remember, when I was a minister in Leith (the port town of Edinburgh) an elderly gentleman was reminiscing about ‘the dancing’ in Leith when he was younger. ‘If you took a fancy to a young girl’ he said, ‘you always had to be careful to ask where she came from.’ ‘No point,’ he said, [...]
Remembering
Posted in Church of Scotland, tagged Be'er Sheva, Black Watch, cemetery, Gaza, remembrance on November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On Monday 31st October we travelled south to participate in the Service of Remembrance at Be’er Sheva Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery. It is organised by the Australian and New Zealand Embassies, in association with the Be’er Sheva Municipality, and is followed by a similar event in the nearby Mustapha Kemal Attaturk Square, organised by the [...]
Feeling our way back in
Posted in Church of Scotland, Israel, Palestine, tagged Edinburgh, media, Moray, scotland on November 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After two months back home in Scotland – visiting churches in Moray and Edinburgh and also having a family holiday – it is good to be back. Our first two weeks seem to have been a hectic swirl of reconnecting and catching up. Near the end of our time in Scotland the questions people asked [...]
