Revealed on 20 August 2025
1 minute learn
What a superb illustration of “God Given” creativity and up-cycling.
In reminiscence of a go to to an island credited with being the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland, Rt Rev Rosie Frew, the Moderator of the Basic Meeting, explains how she collected glass washed up on the seaside at Iona and turned the items into a wonderful memento.
“On our current presbytery go to to Cleir Eilean I – the Presbytery of the Highlands and Hebrides – my husband Dave and I spent a day on Mull and Iona, locations we have visited typically through the years.
We frequently replicate on our most memorable go to.
It was July 2021, COVID-19 restrictions had been nonetheless in place, a pal supplied us his cottage in Bunessan for 2 weeks.
What a tremendous time we had.
With a e book on native walks to information us we explored the shoreline of the Ross of Mull.
The climate was sunny, we had been off the overwhelmed observe, we hardly noticed a soul all fortnight, we gloried within the wonders of God’s creation.
Our pictures do not do it justice.
We went over to Iona a few instances.
Historic Scotland had a restriction on the variety of people allowed within the Abbey.
We needed to e book upfront and go together with a information, twelve of us had the entire place to ourselves, our information fairly rightly commenting, ‘you may by no means expertise it like this once more.’
Most days we did a little bit of seaside combing, despairing on the quantity of plastic waste littering the seashores but in addition delighting in a few of our finds.
It was on Iona that we found sea glass – bottles, jars and glass, carelessly discarded, tumbled clean by the waves and currents.
Nature performing like an enormous rock tumbler, recycling our air pollution to kind these vibrant gems of the shore.
Having gathered it I then ‘Googled’ for concepts for utilizing it.
The Iona Cross that we made matches a pane of our front room window in Melrose.
An exquisite reminder of a time and a spot, and an expression of each our religion and our God-given creativity.
A reminder additionally that God, Creator, Son and Spirit, takes us simply as we’re with all our tough edges and imperfections.
He makes use of all of the experiences of day after day life, our joys and sorrows, the individuals we encounter and, identical to the ocean glass, he transforms us.
Thanks be to God.”
Revealed on 20 August 2025
1 minute learn
What a superb illustration of “God Given” creativity and up-cycling.
In reminiscence of a go to to an island credited with being the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland, Rt Rev Rosie Frew, the Moderator of the Basic Meeting, explains how she collected glass washed up on the seaside at Iona and turned the items into a wonderful memento.
“On our current presbytery go to to Cleir Eilean I – the Presbytery of the Highlands and Hebrides – my husband Dave and I spent a day on Mull and Iona, locations we have visited typically through the years.
We frequently replicate on our most memorable go to.
It was July 2021, COVID-19 restrictions had been nonetheless in place, a pal supplied us his cottage in Bunessan for 2 weeks.
What a tremendous time we had.
With a e book on native walks to information us we explored the shoreline of the Ross of Mull.
The climate was sunny, we had been off the overwhelmed observe, we hardly noticed a soul all fortnight, we gloried within the wonders of God’s creation.
Our pictures do not do it justice.
We went over to Iona a few instances.
Historic Scotland had a restriction on the variety of people allowed within the Abbey.
We needed to e book upfront and go together with a information, twelve of us had the entire place to ourselves, our information fairly rightly commenting, ‘you may by no means expertise it like this once more.’
Most days we did a little bit of seaside combing, despairing on the quantity of plastic waste littering the seashores but in addition delighting in a few of our finds.
It was on Iona that we found sea glass – bottles, jars and glass, carelessly discarded, tumbled clean by the waves and currents.
Nature performing like an enormous rock tumbler, recycling our air pollution to kind these vibrant gems of the shore.
Having gathered it I then ‘Googled’ for concepts for utilizing it.
The Iona Cross that we made matches a pane of our front room window in Melrose.
An exquisite reminder of a time and a spot, and an expression of each our religion and our God-given creativity.
A reminder additionally that God, Creator, Son and Spirit, takes us simply as we’re with all our tough edges and imperfections.
He makes use of all of the experiences of day after day life, our joys and sorrows, the individuals we encounter and, identical to the ocean glass, he transforms us.
Thanks be to God.”
Revealed on 20 August 2025
1 minute learn
What a superb illustration of “God Given” creativity and up-cycling.
In reminiscence of a go to to an island credited with being the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland, Rt Rev Rosie Frew, the Moderator of the Basic Meeting, explains how she collected glass washed up on the seaside at Iona and turned the items into a wonderful memento.
“On our current presbytery go to to Cleir Eilean I – the Presbytery of the Highlands and Hebrides – my husband Dave and I spent a day on Mull and Iona, locations we have visited typically through the years.
We frequently replicate on our most memorable go to.
It was July 2021, COVID-19 restrictions had been nonetheless in place, a pal supplied us his cottage in Bunessan for 2 weeks.
What a tremendous time we had.
With a e book on native walks to information us we explored the shoreline of the Ross of Mull.
The climate was sunny, we had been off the overwhelmed observe, we hardly noticed a soul all fortnight, we gloried within the wonders of God’s creation.
Our pictures do not do it justice.
We went over to Iona a few instances.
Historic Scotland had a restriction on the variety of people allowed within the Abbey.
We needed to e book upfront and go together with a information, twelve of us had the entire place to ourselves, our information fairly rightly commenting, ‘you may by no means expertise it like this once more.’
Most days we did a little bit of seaside combing, despairing on the quantity of plastic waste littering the seashores but in addition delighting in a few of our finds.
It was on Iona that we found sea glass – bottles, jars and glass, carelessly discarded, tumbled clean by the waves and currents.
Nature performing like an enormous rock tumbler, recycling our air pollution to kind these vibrant gems of the shore.
Having gathered it I then ‘Googled’ for concepts for utilizing it.
The Iona Cross that we made matches a pane of our front room window in Melrose.
An exquisite reminder of a time and a spot, and an expression of each our religion and our God-given creativity.
A reminder additionally that God, Creator, Son and Spirit, takes us simply as we’re with all our tough edges and imperfections.
He makes use of all of the experiences of day after day life, our joys and sorrows, the individuals we encounter and, identical to the ocean glass, he transforms us.
Thanks be to God.”
Revealed on 20 August 2025
1 minute learn
What a superb illustration of “God Given” creativity and up-cycling.
In reminiscence of a go to to an island credited with being the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland, Rt Rev Rosie Frew, the Moderator of the Basic Meeting, explains how she collected glass washed up on the seaside at Iona and turned the items into a wonderful memento.
“On our current presbytery go to to Cleir Eilean I – the Presbytery of the Highlands and Hebrides – my husband Dave and I spent a day on Mull and Iona, locations we have visited typically through the years.
We frequently replicate on our most memorable go to.
It was July 2021, COVID-19 restrictions had been nonetheless in place, a pal supplied us his cottage in Bunessan for 2 weeks.
What a tremendous time we had.
With a e book on native walks to information us we explored the shoreline of the Ross of Mull.
The climate was sunny, we had been off the overwhelmed observe, we hardly noticed a soul all fortnight, we gloried within the wonders of God’s creation.
Our pictures do not do it justice.
We went over to Iona a few instances.
Historic Scotland had a restriction on the variety of people allowed within the Abbey.
We needed to e book upfront and go together with a information, twelve of us had the entire place to ourselves, our information fairly rightly commenting, ‘you may by no means expertise it like this once more.’
Most days we did a little bit of seaside combing, despairing on the quantity of plastic waste littering the seashores but in addition delighting in a few of our finds.
It was on Iona that we found sea glass – bottles, jars and glass, carelessly discarded, tumbled clean by the waves and currents.
Nature performing like an enormous rock tumbler, recycling our air pollution to kind these vibrant gems of the shore.
Having gathered it I then ‘Googled’ for concepts for utilizing it.
The Iona Cross that we made matches a pane of our front room window in Melrose.
An exquisite reminder of a time and a spot, and an expression of each our religion and our God-given creativity.
A reminder additionally that God, Creator, Son and Spirit, takes us simply as we’re with all our tough edges and imperfections.
He makes use of all of the experiences of day after day life, our joys and sorrows, the individuals we encounter and, identical to the ocean glass, he transforms us.
Thanks be to God.”
