Angela and I had a delightful time at Buccleuch’s weekend away. Pitlochry is quaint and picturesque: a charming town accompanied with rolling hills, waterfalls, and wild flowers. We rode up on Friday evening with our senior minister, Alex Macdonald, and enjoyed learning more about his ministries in Glasgow, Aberdeen, and for the past 13 years in Edinburgh. On Saturday we joined some others on two scenic walks – one to the Pitlochry Dam and fish ladder and the other to Scotland’s smallest distillery. Oh, how these Scots love their whisky!
The most wonderful aspect of the weekend was the opportunity to interact with folk in a more informal setting than Sundays and Wednesdays. Truly, there are few things more edifying than the iron-sharpening-iron effect of Christian friends. On the lighter side, Angela even entertained the crowd on Saturday evening during a round of pictionary when she tried to get us to guess James Bond by cleverly drawing Fixodent!
In the midst of our all-to-busy lives, the location and hotel (which he had to ourselves!) proved an excellent venue for the church body to break from the hustle and bustle of the work week, gather together to revel in the glory of God’s beautiful creation, and enjoy the company of fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Unfortunately, the weekend away is now the weekend gone by.
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