02/11/2021

Today we begin wirh a huge choice of readings.Yesterday I felt confused but today we begin with the reassurance from Wisdom that we will remain in God's Love even after death. That our being will continue with the eternal Being, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The psalm is one which was known  to all of us in my childhood and its comforting words became a part of most funeral services, Protestant and Catholic alike. 

We have witnessed a huge collapse in Christianity. We have been part of it. We cannot cast blame for this and must accept that we have failed the Lord. Each day I pray but do I proclaim the salvation won in agony on the cross? In the first days after Calvary there was in Jerusalem a great witnessing prompted by the resurrection. The Holy Spirit stirred up many  of the people to proclaim that Jesus who had been killed was still alive; that the Kingdom of God was with them. How is it that that beginning has now crumbled to what we are today?

I don't think that God has forsaken us on the cross of unbelief and I do believe that at the return Jesus will find faith on earth but not in the place I have always expected it to be.

Dear Lord, today your earthly congregation remembers all the souls that have departed this life. May we also remember that it is by our cooperation that your will is completed. Yet again I ask to become a witness of your foregiveness of sins and may my departed family who are all known to you receive the peace that only you can give.