Someone died this morning… I’m sitting on my train to London, the sun streaming in the window. I’m just about to begin this morning’s Bible reading and I’ve just said ‘hi’ to God when an announcement comes over the tanoy…
“There will be some disruption to the service this morning…”
There’s been a fatality further up the tracks.
The train company are doing there best to re-route busy services to get everyone to their destination. There doing such an effective job it will actually cause us little inconvenience. This makes me sad. It’s unlikely I know the person, but their life has ended today… the way it affects the dozen or so people in this carriage is a delay, a disruption, that’s all.
It feels like it should mean more...
I wonder who that person was. I wonder what they loved. I wonder why they died. When we reach six billion people in this world, and hundreds of thousands living within your region, it’s impossible to have a large enough heart to hold them all…
Only you God have that capacity….
Please be with the family and friends the recently departed fellow inhabitant of this earth has left behind. It’s not the news I’d want to give anyone on this bright Monday morning…