Another lovely afternoon as Lorna Sivyour, who has been coming to us for over 30 years, brought along her violin to play some beautiful classical pieces of music and to speak to us about creation and cleansing.

Lorna’s inspiration for creation was Michelangelo’s painting of the Creation of Adam where God reached out his finger to impart the gift of life. Her second thought about cleansing and forgiveness, came from the account of the woman caught in adultery where Jesus, writing with his finger in the sand, did not condemn the woman but told her accusers, John 8 v 7 (NIV)“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 

The first piece of music was Elgar’s Virelai followed by his very familiar Nimrod (Enigma Variations).

Lorna then reminded us of Romans 1 v 20 (NIV), “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” When we look around at all the beauty, how can one say that it has evolved? God’s handiwork is everywhere!

None of us our perfect.  We have all sinned. Yet God does not condemn us.  We are dearly loved and we are accepted just as we are.  We are VIPs (very important people) yet we are WIPs (Works in progress).

Lorna challenged us to keep our eyes on Jesus and to spend time in the Word.

The last piece Lorna played was Rimsky-Korsakov’s, Scheherazade. We then finished our time together singing one of Lorna’s favourite worship songs, Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord – You are the Everlasting God. Amen to that!