National Child Loss Awareness Day
Because grief isn’t something you “get over” in 4 years or 40 years. I am the 1:4, yes as shocking as it seems 1 in 4 of us have “lost” a baby. That means have had a child die. We …
Category: Zachary
Reviews – Resurrection Year and A Force of Will
Some books are hard to read. Some books are hard to read because the subject matter is challenging on a sympathetic level; you feel the pain the author describes, you understand intellectually what he/she is trying to communicate. Some books …
Saying Goodbye
I’m delighted to share with you all that I have been asked to preach at the Saying Goodbye service at Canterbury Cathedral on the 6th of July. Saying Goodbye is a superb charity that each year organises a whole series …
Archbishop Justin on Losing a Child
That moment when he chokes up speaking of his daughter’s death, and then the glimmer of joy as he moves onto describe how God was at the centre of it all. That.
Men of Old
No poem this year (see Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh for the past three years’ mourning trilogy), just a simple verse from a great Carol. In the heavenly country bright, Need they no created light; Thou its Light, its Joy, its …