George Mcleod was the founder of the Iona Community, and the driving force behind the restoration of Iona Abbey in from the 1930s onwards. McLeod's prayers often featured light and shadow, a natural expression of his theological ethics which were also illuminated by his belief that Christ the Word of Life, who is Christ the Light of the World, is the energising source glimpsed in the glory and through the grey of this God-created world.
As his best biographer noted, echoing Colossians 1.15-20, Mcleod affirmed "Christ at the heart of the cosmos; Christ the light of the world in all, through all; Christ the light energy in and through all matter."
Something of that is hinted at in a moment captured on a smartphone, from a moving bus, on an undulating B road, on a Scottish island, on a Monday afternoon, by a wee guy on his way to Iona
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