This week, I have been thinking about our daily bread. Today, many kinds of bread are being baked in the different cultures around the world.

An t-seachdain seo, tha mi air a bhith a’ smaoineachadh air ar n-aran làitheil. Anns an latha an-diugh, tha iomadach seòrsa de dh’aran gam fuine ann an culturan eadar-dhealaichte an t-saoghail.

I have been thinking about baking bread at home and how much it means to us. A little fat or oil is often added to the dough. I myself use olive oil.

Tha mi air a bhith a’ smaoineachadh air fuine arain san dachaigh agus na tha e a’ ciallachadh dhuinn. Is tric a bhios beagan saill no ola air a chur ris an taois. ’S e ola chrann-ola a chleachdas mi fhìn.

This week, I am thinking about how important bread is to us. Nowadays, yeast is used to raise the dough, although some prefer a sourdough.

An t-seachdain seo, tha mi a’ meòrachadh air cho cudromach ’s a tha aran dhuinn. Anns an latha an-diugh, ’s i beirm a thèid a cleachdadh anns an taois airson toirt oirre èiridh, ged as fheàrr le cuid aran taois gheur, no ‘sourdough’.

As usual for home bakers, it took time before I learnt how to make a light loaf with wholemeal flour.

Mar as àbhaist do dhaoine a tha a’ dèanamh aran aig an taigh, thug e ùine mus do dh’ionnsaich mi ciamar a dhèanainn lof aotrom le flùr slàn-mhine.

More than thirty years ago, I started making bread at home – wheat bread.

O chionn còrr is deich bliadhna fichead, thòisich mi air aran fhuine aig an taigh – aran-cruithneachd, ‘wheaten bread’.

The Gospel descriptions of the betrayal of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane leave space for us, as they have to many others over the centuries, to fill in the details of that moment of ‘the Judas kiss’.

Tha an dòigh anns a bheil na Soisgeulan ag innse dhuinn mu bhrathadh Ìosa ann an Gàrradh Ghetsemane a’ fàgail cothrom dhuinn a bhith a’ cruthachadh dealbh nar mac-meanma den dearbh mhòmaid ud anns an do phòg Iudas Ìosa.

This week, I have been thinking about words the French surgeon, Ambroise Paré, wrote in the sixteenth century, ‘I dressed the wounds, but God healed them’. Over the centuries, some surgeons of the same mind have been fervent in prayer.

An t-seachdain seo, tha mi air a bhith a’ smaoineachadh air facail a sgrìobh an lannsair Frangach Ambroise Paré anns an t-siathamh linn deug, ‘Cheangail mi suas na lotan, ach ’s e Dia a shlànaich iad’. Thar nan linntean, tha cuid de lannsairean den aon inntinn air a bhith dùrachdach ann an ùrnaigh.

In my ‘thoughts’, I have been remembering the words of the French surgeon, Ambroise Paré, ‘I dressed the wounds, but God healed them’.

When I was a medical student in Nepal, fifty years ago, I was apprentice to Dr Jonathan Yoder, an American surgeon.

Anns na smuaintean agam, tha mi air a bhith a’ cuimhneachadh air facail an lannsair Fhrangaich, Ambroise Paré, ‘Cheangail mi suas na lotan, ach ’s e Dia a shlànaich iad.’ Nuair a bha mi nam oileaneach meidigeach ann an Nepal, o chionn leth-cheud bliadhna, bha mi nam phreantas dhan Dr Jonathan Yoder, lannsair Ameireaganach.

This week, I have been remembering the words of the French surgeon, Ambroise Paré, ‘I dressed the wounds, but God healed them’. In the middle of the nineteenth century, three hundred years after Parè’s time, there was a surgeon in Aberdeen who saw himself as a servant in God’s healing work – William Keith.

An t-seachdain seo, tha mi a’ cuimhneachadh air facail an lannsair Fhrangaich, Ambroise Paré, ‘Cheangail mi suas na lotan, ach ’s e Dia a shlànaich iad.’ Ann am meadhan na naoidheamh linn deug, trì cheud bliadhna an dèidh latha Paré, bha lannsair ann an Obar Dheathain a bha ga fhaicinn fhèin mar sheirbhiseach ann an obair slànachadh Dhè – Uilleam Keith.

Yesterday, I was remembering Ambroise Paré, a famous surgeon who worked on the battlefields in the sixteenth century.

As regards faith, Paré was a Protestant at a time when that was a very dangerous thing to be in France. In the history of surgery, Paré won for himself the accolade, ‘The Father of Modern Surgery.’

An-dè, bha mi a’ cuimhneachadh air Ambroise Paré, lannsair ainmeil a bha ag obair anns na blàran anns an t-siathamh linn deug.

A thaobh creidimh, b’ e Pròstanach a bha ann am Paré, ann an linn nuair a bha sin air leth cunnartach anns an Fhraing. Ann an eachdraidh obair-lannsa, choisinn Paré dha fhèin an tiotal ‘Athair Obair-lannsa Nuadh’.