As you know I’ve been watching Slighe Chladach Fiobha (Fife Coastal Path) on BBC Alba.
This week Iagan McNeill reached St Fillans Cave in Pittenweem and spoke to Aberdour’s Simon Taylor – I was expecting some great reveleations.
Iagan McNeill: Who was St Fillan?
Simon Taylor: We don’t know.
You can watch it here on iPlayer (St Fillan’s Cave is at 15mins).
As he is an 8th century saint this is what we would expect – but do we really know anybody?
We may know someone but do we really know them, also do we know what it is like to be them.
Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.