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At Peebles OldSadly, but in keeping with the Covid-19guidelines, our Daily Worship along withSunday Worship is still currently suspended.However the texts and hymns for weeklyservices are available at peeblesold.onlineIn these changed times it’s more important thatwe keep in touch with those around us by safemeans. As this and foreseeable editions of thismagazine will only be available electronicallyplease share the word around that it can beobtained online at www.topcop.org.ukYou can also keep up to datevia our Facebook page.
Pastoral letterJune 2020Dear FriendsI need a barber! And a dentist! (Those who follow peeblesold.online will havenoticed that I have lost a crown.) And a chiropodist, and someone who canoperate on my mobile phone). Such are the ongoing frustrations of thecoronavirus. On the positive side. I’ve used hardly any petrol, and I haven’tbeen to an ATM in ages.Of course, these things are utterly trivial compared to the heartbreak,suffering and loss that COVID-19 has wreaked on our lives. I was ponderingthis morning. I was born and brought up in Dumfries, a busy traditionalScottish county and market town. The UK death toll from the virus has nowexceeded the population of Dumfries. A whole town wiped out and more.Some of the deaths have affected us even more closely and deeply. And whenwe take into account the many who have been ill and recovered, the majorityof us will know folk who have had to fight the virus.Add to all that the worries about jobs, unemployment, schools, the economygenerally it is a heavy burden our society is having to deal with. What surprisesmost is the speed with which our ways of life have been comprehensivelychanged. We all wonder, I think, will the old ways return? Perhaps not all ofthem will. Perhaps some of them should not.Which of us wholeheartedly embraces change? Very few. It’s part of thehuman condition to be wary of disturbance around us. And yet our survival asspecks on the panorama of the universe depends on gradual restoration andtransformation. Our Scriptural record shows it. Jeremiah stood at the Templegate and said: “Look for the ancient paths”! Restoration! The same prophetalso warned the people not to think that by chanting “This is the temple of theLord…the temple of the Lord….the temple of the Lord” that they would besaved. Transformation!That’s where we are. Perhaps where we have always been. Finlay Macdonald,elsewhere in the magazine, will be saying something about the currentthinking of the Church of Scotland - which had begun a process of deep selfexaminationwhen Covid-19 came along.Here in the Old Parish and in Eddleston we are following the rules carefully.We do not want to put anyone in any kind of danger. So many things in ourcorporate life have been put on hold. In worship terms, we produce a new set
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