Dunblane Cathedral Magazine January 2009

No. 205 January 2009 http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS Let’s Take A New Direction THE THOUGHT of a New Year’s Resolution in the middle of Advent leaves me in a cold sweat. IamwritingthisonDecember 12 because everybody...   [More]

No.
205 January 2009
http://www.
dunblanecathedral.
org.
ukADDRESS
Let’s Take A New Direction
THE THOUGHT of a New
Year’s Resolution in the
middle of Advent leaves me
in a cold sweat.

IamwritingthisonDecember
12 because everybody is
cranking up for Christmas
and there won’t be time to
get it together for January if
we leave it any later; so the
newsletter deadline has been
moved up by a week and it’s
looming large.

So here I sit, trying to put
myself into that unique
New Year mindset – the
almost palpable deep breath
everyone seems to take come
January 1st (well, by the 2nd
or 3rd at least) - the one that
seems sensibly to say “party
over, let’s get serious, let’s get
organized, and decide where
this year is going to take us.
”
Resolve
It’s almost a mental dusting
down, a spring clean of the
brain come early, but I’m
failing… if I can manage
to keep up my resolve
to remember where I’m
supposedtobeandwhatIsaid
I’d do, then I feel I deserve
to pat myself on the back
and hum a wee festive carol.

But let’s get back (forward)
to January where we all are
now reading this epistle …
because I do have something
FROM THE
ASSOCIATE MINISTER
to say about resolving to do
things differently.

I have a friend who turned
forty last year (I know what
you’re thinking - Sally
couldn’t possibly have
friends that old.
She looks far
too young!) She decided that
the year should be marked in
a way unique to her - one that
would mean something and
that she would never forget.

So she wrote a list of forty
things to do before the end of
her fortieth year, not a bucket
list exactly but a mid-life
it, but weren’t anywhere
near last; she had to do the
babysitting thing alone, but
some demons are best faced
solo.
Forty came and went,
but it went out with a bang,
not a whimper.
(Maybe when
I turn forty, I’ll do something
like that…).

Message
I’m sitting here in the middle
of December thinking myself
into January, and here’s the
message I hope we go away
with: you don’t need to wait
for an excuse to take a deep
breath.
The “brain clean”
can come whenever you want
it to and that kind of selfassessment doesn’t mean the
party’s over, but maybe that
it’s time to crank it up again.

And maybe there are some
things that you’re doing
(or not doing) that need
a bit of consideration,
reconsideration even.
In the
grand scheme of things, life
is a brief, but priceless gift;
strangely, it is one used to
its fullest when it’s shared
or embraced (the ultimate is
both).

We’re into January, so the
wisemen have followed the
star and headed back home
their “different” way.
Take
their lead and go in a new
direction.
Happy New Year.

Sally
The Editorial Team would like to wish all our
readers a happy and peaceful New Year
‘In the grand scheme
of things, life is a brief,
but priceless gift’
challenge.
And the list wasn’t
a whimpy one! Included were
cycling a stage of the Tour De
France, going speed dating,
babysitting (she’d never done
that, so it was a big deal),
and a couple of things she’d
rather not see in print.

Theyearwasonetoremember
and the best part about
it was the way everybody
got involved.
She co-opted
friends to go with her on her
speed-dating night (there are
stories, but I won’t go into
that), she and some other
crazy people cycled one of the
hilly stages of the Tour De
France and not only finished
Our Annual Carers’ Service for 2009 is being held at
10.
30am on Sunday 1 February when, once again, we will
welcome representatives of nearly fifty caring organisations,
and local individual carers, to the Cathedral.
This special
Service gives us all an opportunity to celebrate their caring,
to give thanks for their commitment and to acknowledge
our own duty of caring as a fundamental part of our Faith.

We would welcome information from any member of
the congregation who knows of a caring organisation,
particularly local, about whom we are perhaps unaware,
and who might be invited to this Service.

CARERS’ SERVICE 2009
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