Saturday the 14th of October
The theme for this day is drawn from the Jewish festival of Tabernacles known as sukkot
We will be exploring Permanence and Transience using a very ancient place and temporary shelters on the beech to raise questions about experiences of eternity and the present moment.
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Our plan would be to meet up outside St Johns in Dumfries to share cars and head out by 10am.
We will travel to Cairnholy which is a visually stunning location. There we will reflect on the solidness ancientness of stone and the contrast this has with the transience of a human lifetime emphasised by just how much we don’t know about the people who built the structures. These is a song to sing here.
We will then travel to a shoreside location. If the weather suits the plan is to have a picnic on the beach, but we will adapt!
On the beach we will build a shelter, and use it as a venue to share food and hear the ancient story that is still remembered every year at “Sukkot” . Without too many spoilers the main ideas are God’s provision and presence, harvest, celebration with everyone, and inclusiveness.
To remember the day, and draw things together with an action we hope to make wax candles to take home. This will use the sand as a mould.
The candles might not be as permanent as the stone of a chambered cairn, but when you burn them the light which is released will hopefully be a reminder of the light which has been and is part of the human experience since the dawn of time.
