Friday 24 January 2020

We went to the funeral of Jonathan Green in the magnificent Louth Parish church.

About six hundred people there. He was only 57.

A good man and a sad occasion, but I drew comfort from these words in St Paul to the church in Thessalonika:

“For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again , even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died.”

Sitting there, I had the definite feeling that it was true. Words come and go, doubts remain, but suddenly from nowhere one gets this strange conviction. Or perhaps from somewhere?

Saturday 25 January 2020

Today’s psalm On Saturday is Psalm 117.

I read it alone in the silent village church.

“Laudate Domine”

Praise the Lord all ye nations, in the modern translation — all ye heathens in the old.