Don Dowling's Blog

Don's Blog

Hi all.

The week started like any other normal week, thinking about next Sunday, some planning for future events, etc, etc…… and then the news came that our wonderful Mavis Scaddan had died.
Mavis has been a very faithful member of the congregation for many, many years and although she found it hard to get around, she still managed a smile and was willing to speak with any one who wanted to talk with her.

Some of you may remember that I did a video interview with her on the occasion of her 100th Birthday. I went to her home and we filmed for quite a while with me asking lots of questions and sometimes receiving some very frank answers. I remember asking what she would like now that she reached 100 years of age and as quick as ever she replied. “I would like to die now”. I was a bit taken aback at first but then came to realise she was struggling with feeling that she couldn’t do anything and several of her friends had died many years before.

We will not forget her and we now have a wonderful photograph of her, taken by the West Australian, at last years Good Friday service. We will find a place for it in the Church.

Our prayers and thoughts are with Laurel and Jill as they re-adjust to their Mother not being with them. I know they will appreciate the support that will be given to them at this time.

As many of you know the Funeral is to be held at 10.30am on Tuesday 22nd at the Purslowe Funeral Chapel, 289 Albany Highway, Victoria Park.

We will in the next week think about what we might like to do as a congregation to remember and celebrate Mavis’s life and I will let you know as soon as possible, what that might be.
Life is fragile sometimes and in the midst of it, we again turn to our loving God to support us and guide us, keeping us on that “Walk in the Way of Love.”

Thanks for reading
Don