Wyrd Hell-oween/When in Rome....
Strange happenstances taking place in the Underworld as All Hallowed Eve became All Saints again for 3 brief minutes of pop-gospel peculiarity.
100 feet from possibly one of the biggest pagan gatherings in Britian, the sweaty occupants of a busy mosh pit held each other and roared out Amazing Grace before reverting to the other type of crazed revelry steadily unfolding beforehand.
God turns up in strange places.
Next day I did away with myself to Nunraw Abbey in Haddington to chill with monks for 2 nights. Im not a Catholic - undercover baptist action ;) - so it was new territory. Right outside the comfort zone!
But aye man - mone the monks! Mone the quiet! I did nothing for nearly 48 hours, and couldnt find enough hours of the day to fit it in. Just hanging out with all the sick, the recovering, the feeble, the oddballs, the monk-a-doodle-dandies, 1 punk and God in this wee non-exclusive macro community.
Spent the afternoon talking to Bother Stephen who will be 86 next week. He's done 53 years of God-porridge, and is officially the coolest guy I have met this year.
Canny wait to go back.
100 feet from possibly one of the biggest pagan gatherings in Britian, the sweaty occupants of a busy mosh pit held each other and roared out Amazing Grace before reverting to the other type of crazed revelry steadily unfolding beforehand.
God turns up in strange places.
Next day I did away with myself to Nunraw Abbey in Haddington to chill with monks for 2 nights. Im not a Catholic - undercover baptist action ;) - so it was new territory. Right outside the comfort zone!
But aye man - mone the monks! Mone the quiet! I did nothing for nearly 48 hours, and couldnt find enough hours of the day to fit it in. Just hanging out with all the sick, the recovering, the feeble, the oddballs, the monk-a-doodle-dandies, 1 punk and God in this wee non-exclusive macro community.
Spent the afternoon talking to Bother Stephen who will be 86 next week. He's done 53 years of God-porridge, and is officially the coolest guy I have met this year.
Canny wait to go back.
posted by Dougleross at 8:37 pm
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