The loss of Radford Semele Church in a devastating fire is a loss felt by all church goers in Radford.
Yet, none of us doubt God has a purpose in this for every Christian and every villager.
The whole village knows for certain that the greatest loss to us all was the recent unexpected loss of a 26 year old boy, to one of our village families. Far g
reater than our 800 year old church because we know a building is not a church;and we have been given faith, hope and charity enough to live with and share God's gifts in our loss.
So everyone who expressed their grief with that family and the Anglican church family carry the loss in their hearts.
I call the new statue of Spring 'Emptiness'. It will become a meeting point for the sad and lonely, people who despair in the values they have no more without their family.
As Age Concern has just put it "One is sad". Where have my family gone to live now, I am all alone?
God's real gift is visible inside and around the building, behind "emptiness"; it is in people's hearts.
The church is its people who enjoy the bread of life that rose again at Easter to be revisited every day.
So we pray: Our Father in heaven give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we forgive others.
Amen. - John Ireson, Lewis Road, Radford Semele.
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