Oct 13, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
Patricia reflects with us on her special place, the Scottish island of Iona.
Okay, good morning.
Welcome to Sunday Snippet.
However, this is going to be slightly different because this is really a reflection, a personal reflection on my journeys to Iona, which I call my sacred place.
A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
I seek you.
My soul thirsts for you.
My flesh faints for you as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Now, in our faith journey, we are constantly seeking God in our day-to-day existence.
and in our encounters with each other.
We're social beings and we live in a world that is constructed for our survival, for our being, really.
I do say we all have our place where we can retreat to, to enable us to be close to God when we need that moment to consider life our life the life we're living the world we're in and all that's going on for us and we need those quiet times i feel because we find our world to be such a noisy chaotic and demanding place that it saps our very being and we and it drains us so um That place of quiet and solitude is vital for our own restorative preservation, really, for us to enable us to keep going.
So we leave the noisy world for a while to rest and pray.
And it's something that Christians have been doing for centuries.
For a closer exploration, I refer you to the book Silence and Honey Cakes, The Wisdom of the Desert by Rowan Williams.
And this is one of the books that Mother Alice introduced us to in our religious book clubs.
It's fascinating and I found myself keep going back to it.
And then I remembered the monks from Worth Abbey, they did a programme and some people, lay people volunteered to go and live with them for a while and their comments and their experiences are so amazing that it's intriguing when I still think of solitude as being a place for repair.
So if I can refer you to the little package of photographs you've got, I've provided a brief description of Iona and St. Columba and the places of interest on Iona by way of contextualizing what I'm going to say.
Okay, good morning.
Welcome to Sunday Snippet.
However, this is going to be slightly different because this is really a reflection, a personal reflection on my journeys to Iona, which I call my sacred place.
A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
I seek you.
My soul thirsts for you.
My flesh faints for you as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Now, in our faith journey, we are constantly seeking God in our day-to-day existence.
and in our encounters with each other.
We're social beings and we live in a world that is constructed for our survival, for our being, really.
I do say we all have our place where we can retreat to, to enable us to be close to God when we need that moment to consider life our life the life we're living the world we're in and all that's going on for us and we need those quiet times i feel because we find our world to be such a noisy chaotic and demanding place that it saps our very being and we and it drains us so um That place of quiet and solitude is vital for our own restorative preservation, really, for us to enable us to keep going.
So we leave the noisy world for a while to rest and pray.
And it's something that Christians have been doing for centuries.
For a closer exploration, I refer you to the book Silence and Honey Cakes, The Wisdom of the Desert by Rowan Williams.
And this is one of the books that Mother Alice introduced us to in our religious book clubs.
It's fascinating and I found myself keep going back to it.
And then I remembered the monks from Worth Abbey, they did a programme and some people, lay people volunteered to go and live with them for a while and their comments and their experiences are so amazing that it's intriguing when I still think of solitude as being a place for repair.
So if I can refer you to the little package of photographs you've got, I've provided a brief description of Iona and St. Columba and the places of interest on Iona by way of contextualizing what I'm going to say.
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