Evening: Psalm 22; John 7:37-52
Today is St. Aidan’s Day. An Irish monk, Aidan was sent from remote Iona in Scotland as a missionary to the English. In April, Mona and I were privileged to stay on Iona. Afterwards, we visited barren, windswept Lindisfarne island, where Aidan founded a new Christian community. From Lindisfarne, Aidan gently taught the English the message of Jesus. Jesus’s contemporaries once wondered how he could come from such a humble place as Galilee. It is a pattern in Christian history – Highly influential people (Aidan, Jesus) often work far from the centres of secular power. For God, there are no backwaters.
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