February 2012
Dear Friends,
Post Christmas flatness, winter nights, recession, not to mention unthinking unquestioning secularism, all add up to a very gloomy existence for many. I was delighted to come across the following words from a medieval play. We human beings need the divine gifts of Faith, Hope and Charity, we tend to forget the second gift all too often. The hope for heaven is a very human desire for Love's victory, the vindication of God's eternal purpose for all He has created.
DAME ALICE in a Mediaeval Play on Heaven.
There will be such a kissing and welcoming as never was amid such a hurrying and hooraying and introducing and forgiving and such a partying it will be like Christmas and Easter rolled into one.
There will be such a telling of stories and the good Lord will smile and chide us that we did not trust him and we shall see the joke, all of us, and we shall laugh and laugh and there will be such a partying as never was.
And Mary his mother will look to her Son and say it is time for rest and there will be such a sleeping till the morning.
And the morning will come and the sun will be bright and the sky will be blue and the meadows will| beckon and there will be such an adventuring and exploring. And those who could not walk will run again and those who could not see will see colours such as never were, and those who could not hear will hear music beyond their believing and there will be such an exploring and adventuring and telling of adventures.
But the good Lord will say "Enough, I have work for you and we shall remember those still on earth and will have charge of to pray for and weep for and to long for ". But in our weeping there will be laughter, for one day they will be with us and there will be such a partying as never was my love. Easter and Christmas all rolled in one.
God bless us all
