大象传媒

Good Morning

However often I pass that same way, I am always taken unawares by their sheer loveliness.

The Kelpies are two massive horses鈥� heads, forged out of thin, stainless steel plates. They were built on land near the Forth and Clyde canal by the sculptor, Andy Scott.聽 The two heads rear straight out of the ground, 30 metres into the sky, twisting and turning in opposite directions.聽聽 I see them when I鈥檓 driving along the motorway, and each time, without warning, they appear - massively and gloriously.聽 A gleaming, soaring vision which makes me catch my breath. 聽

We are surprised by joy. 聽These moments can happen anywhere, at any time.聽 On mountaintops, or in a quiet, ordinary act.聽 For instance: there鈥檚 a point near the end of cooking porridge, when it鈥檚 just barely simmering.聽 Slowly, slowly, little skins of air begin to swell on the surface; they rise, and rise, and then they pop with a sigh, and subside. Every time I watch it, I鈥檓 seized by a longing for my father 鈥� and he is there, in heart and memory.聽 He used to come and stand beside the cooker, because he loved that moment when the porridge was bubbling and hissing: it reminded him of hot springs in his homeland of Iceland. 聽And in that moment I see him there again, standing beside the scalding pools, wreathed in steam and the smell of sulphur.聽

There are moments when the present hovers, stops.聽 聽And for an instant, we鈥檙e released from time.聽 Before the bubble bursts, we鈥檙e freed from regret or anxiety That is joy; that is wonder.

Creator God who undoes Time; who is both now, and forever; you are the beauty, memory and love which surprises. 聽Amen