This week's Community Column is written by the Rev Christine Murdoch, the Church of Scotland's parish minister at Garelochhead, St Modan's in Rosneath, and Craigrownie in Cove.
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Living at the end of the Rosneath peninsula looking over to Gourock, my view is always changing: the tide ebbs and flows; the wind can be blowing a gale or very still; the cloud formation is always moving.
I am used to seeing the world around me change moment by moment, so I am used to change.
However, this is not the kind of change that affects my life, other than in a visual way.
In the Church of Scotland we have been presented with a Radical Action Plan that demands of us change.
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Not just a tinkering at the edges kind of change, but institutional and cultural change that takes a change of hearts and minds.
In the life of our country we are facing unprecedented change.
Regardless of how any of us voted in the Brexit referendum, we are now in a situation where we do not know what it is going to happen on October 31.
We could be leaving the European Union (EU) with a deal that will mean we don’t notice much difference.
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We could leave with a deal that could completely change our relationship with the EU; we could come out with no deal, which depending on who you believe could be a catastrophe or merely a blip.
Or we could find that we are still staying in with an extension to help iron out the currently unsolvable problems.
We just don’t know, and while on the one hand, worrying won’t change anything, living unsettling times can be frustrating and frightening.
In primary school assembly, we sing a song called 'Holding On To The Rock'. The children love it, and it teaches them that when life is hard, we need to know who our rock is and turn to them for help and support.
For some people their rock will be their family and friends, for other people their rock will be God. Whoever is your rock, I hope and pray that in these turbulent days you remain strong, together.
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