\nthe lark is in the sky!<\/em>
\nthe fields are wet with diamond dew….<\/em><\/p>\n
I expect he was thinking about the River Severn which carries on past Worcester, except on the days when it comes into Worcester: when it floods. The cricket ground, alive with small boys learning the craft in 2019, was underwater in February 2020.<\/p>\n
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He survived WW1 but died in 1929 after a further decade of work in grieving post war Britain. He certainly knew about the demands of ministry:<\/p>\n
To give and give and give again,<\/em> (from the final verse of the same hymn)<\/p>\n Whilst over a century old, the words still resonate. There are many in 2020 who have given themselves without thought for the personal cost. I don’t know what pilgrimage was like in previous ages, but I do know it continues today. It is as much a state of mind as a bodily thing. I read how Ivor Gurney, the poet of the Severn Meadows, used to enjoy looking at an old map of Gloucester when he was held in the asylum where he later died, going over the routes he held in his memory. I pray that we all have routes to remember and routes to plan.<\/p>\n May the good angel of the Lord accompany you<\/em> From the remembered gospel We journey with you, Jesus, JAL: 10.05.2020 in Longdendale.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Day 35 of the End to End in 2019 I walked along the Severn Way via Worcester Cathedral. I was not the first person to walk to Worcester. A memorial stone in the Cathedral remembers a 15th century pilgrim who called in. It is a fine place and contains the burial place of King … Continue reading “Accompanied by angels”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remembered-bible","category-remembering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat God has given thee.<\/em>
\nTo spend thyself nor count the cost,<\/em>
\nto serve right gloriously…<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_6987-300x169.jpg\")
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\n(Prayer for Pilgrims seen in Worcester Cathedral)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_7009-300x169.jpg\")
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\nJesus sent out 72 others saying ‘See that road, follow it. Don’t take a lot of stuff’.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nfollowing old routes, making new ones.
\nMay your angels keep us company:
\nfriends on the phone,
\ncolleagues in the workplace at a safe distance,
\nvolunteers in our neighbourhood.
\nWith numbers going up everyday,
\nwe are mindful of the human cost of this pandemic.
\n[pause to think of them]<\/em>
\nFrom the Church Militant to the Church Triumphant,
\nhelp us to leave behind the stuff we don’t need,
\nto keep the faith in our century,
\nto serve others as you served.<\/p>\n