A list of things that if you told me I would do during my Young Adult Volunteer Year I would have laughed in your face: ***Disclaimers: I began this post in MAY. But more wild things kept happening. And in publishing this post, there is a feeling of finality to my YAV year that I…
Tag: Scotland
Three months left…
A list of some really lovely things aiding in the transition to less than 3 months of a YAV year left: 1) Hiking Ben Lomond together with our Volunteering Vocations friend, Susan, Paul our deacon in Castlemilk, our site coordinator Lynn and her husband Rory. Feeling the wind, the rain, the hail, and the snow….
Lent: From Palm Sunday to Easter
40. Save Hosana. 41. Smell This room probably did not smell as good as the perfume Mary used on Jesus’ feet. 42. Lift The city at night is one of my favourite sights. 43. Beloved People let me take a whole service in Castlemilk for Holy Week. While this is the only picture I…
Lent Day 31- Day 39
31. Restore The sea just has that unintended ability to restore the soul. Taken in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. 32. Beauty A group of beauties I am so lucky to know. Taken on the way home from a Ceilidh with YAV alums, parents, boyfriend, YAV sisters, Scottish Friends and Priority Area colleagues. A…
Lent Days 22-30
22. Children This picture was taken on a Sunday afternoon walk to the Necropolis. It made me stop in my track and think of one of my J.A.F.F.A. Club kids who every Sunday works a rainbow in to her drawings. The Last Supper, Jesus in the Wilderness, Palm Sunday, you name it and a rainbow…
Lent: Week 1
A week one update on praying my way through Lent. Day 1: Dust Olivia created our ashes and chose a song. Rachel got roped in because she was in the room. They let me put ashes on their forehead and remind them from dust we came and to dust we shall return because we…
Isabella Fagiani 