This is my favourite picture from my Sabbatical and on St Andrew's Day it seems appropriate as it comes from Scotland, and the Isle of Harris.
The question is, what is the building in the middle of this picture?
The answer is obvious. It is a bus shelter. And it is easy to imagine on this windswept moor that shelter would be very important. Life-saving might be nearer the truth given the (understandable) infrequency of the W13. Three hours wait?
Isn't that a sheep waiting for a bus? But no, of course not. Sheep, even in Harris, don't wait for buses. The sheep is in the wrong place.
On reflection, though, I imagine that over a year this construction has many more sheep in it than people. It may have been put here as a bus stop, and look like a bus stop but it is really mostly about sheep.
And when the lifelong fisherman from Galilee whose name was Andrew (and whose day today is) began to follow Jesus he looked and sounded like a fisherman, and looked like he should have been a fisherman, but the Lord told him 'from now on you will be a fisherman of people'. Or to put it another way, from now on you are going to be all about sheep.
On reflection, though, I imagine that over a year this construction has many more sheep in it than people. It may have been put here as a bus stop, and look like a bus stop but it is really mostly about sheep.
And when the lifelong fisherman from Galilee whose name was Andrew (and whose day today is) began to follow Jesus he looked and sounded like a fisherman, and looked like he should have been a fisherman, but the Lord told him 'from now on you will be a fisherman of people'. Or to put it another way, from now on you are going to be all about sheep.
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