The Storm

The readings for this Sunday include the famous story of Jesus calming the storm and rebuking His disciples for not relying on their faith to allay their fears. A human failing of course - to believe that when times are bad, for whatever reason, they will never get better. And yet they always do, not necessarily in the way we would want - but they do. This is the basis of all consolation.

I thought about this yesterday when a good friend of mine was buried, over two weeks after he had died, with a moving ceremony which included lots of his favourite jazz and ballad music as well as hymns and readings and most heartfelt and honest tributes from his brother and his widow’s cousin. Now the process of  healing begins as it always does and, as they say, life goes on in its Wordsworthian diurnal course, without him but with his memory still alive, whatever you may believe, or not believe, about his immortal soul.

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