... We give thanks for those things which God does offstage. The almost unnoticed intrusions into our daily lives, which we may realise in time, change everything.

And we give thanks for those eccentric and stubborn enough to hold on to their hopes in a world which has forgotten how to imagine a different future. 

We give thanks for the old ones who stubbornly insist that despite all evidence to the contrary, God is coming to make things well again… and so spend their days in faithful prayer.

And we give thanks for the young ones who, despite living in a world whose future seems to have been cancelled, a world of extinguished dreams, nevertheless insist on bringing their newborns to their Temples as a sign of hope in the persistence of God. ...

A talk for The Presentation of Christ in the Temple,  Sunday 31 January 2021.

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