We search for words but we cannot even articulate them because in the moment of despair, on a spiritual and emotional level, we cannot really believe the goodness of God. We simply cannot, so we have to borrow the songs that we grew up with, the hymns. We may not be able to speak but we can barely sing, haltingly, but we can barely sing. It seems to me, that is a more spiritually realistic picture of the face of hope in all of its difficulty. The difficulties don t go away but God is with us and for us and there are spiritual resources available in those hours to get us on through and that is the point.
Love unlocks the key at the heart of the universe.
We have to come back to that. My colleague Tom Reiber, was telling me that he went to visit Isabelle Deveney this week. Isabelle is just old and she has only been able to lay in bed for the past few weeks. He brought her communion. It was his first communion since he has been ordained.