MY FUNERAL BLUES?
I don't intend to 'blow my own trumpet'. If it seems as though I am, forgive me. I take so many knocks from many sides, have always done so, will no doubt til the day I die. I said to my dear wife this morning - 'I think I was born before my time' .
What I have worked for through my life and believed, is, in so many ways, part of what we are able to live in our modern idiom. However, when I was young, the freedom and equality we enjoy today, seemed a world away and I was castigated as a rebel for suggesting it. I have struggled passionately to remain true to myself, and true to what I believed was right, against all the odds, despite the resistance and irrespective of the personal cost.
Today I went to take a funeral in the heart of Kent. I give my all to my ministry, love people and want to provide them with only my best. I try to make the services deeply personal, warm and affectionate. At the end of the service today, so many echoed the same sentiment - "That was the best funeral I have ever been to" and one person seized my hand and said "Thank you so so much. You were born to do this work."
It made me well up, as I often do, emotions always close to my being.
It was a gift of affirmation along life's dusty, tortuous way.
On my way home I passed this most beautiful field.
Life and love abundant. The elixir of life.
xx
What I have worked for through my life and believed, is, in so many ways, part of what we are able to live in our modern idiom. However, when I was young, the freedom and equality we enjoy today, seemed a world away and I was castigated as a rebel for suggesting it. I have struggled passionately to remain true to myself, and true to what I believed was right, against all the odds, despite the resistance and irrespective of the personal cost.
Today I went to take a funeral in the heart of Kent. I give my all to my ministry, love people and want to provide them with only my best. I try to make the services deeply personal, warm and affectionate. At the end of the service today, so many echoed the same sentiment - "That was the best funeral I have ever been to" and one person seized my hand and said "Thank you so so much. You were born to do this work."
It made me well up, as I often do, emotions always close to my being.
It was a gift of affirmation along life's dusty, tortuous way.
On my way home I passed this most beautiful field.
Life and love abundant. The elixir of life.
xx
ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE
http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html
"You brave, courageous and wonderful man.
To stand up for the truth in the face of suppression and oppression
is truly an act of a pure heart."
posted by Bishop Jonathan Blake | 4:59 PM
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