Joining a new community like a church is a bit of a slow, difficult process, isn't it—throwing yourself into doing things sounds like a good idea, and I hope the writing of the devotional goes well.

Ah, Kidnapped and fic research :D I'm glad you're enjoying the book as well as the play—it is such good swashbuckling fun, and Alan and Davie's relationship is so cute and lovely and generally great. Maybe you haven't got to the best bit (which mostly isn't in the play) yet?... I will avoid specific possibly-spoilery details. :D And those history books sound very interesting—emigration is something that often comes up in the background of the more Scotland-focussed Jacobite-related history reading that I've done but I've never read anything detailed about it.