I’ve just been part of two funerals one for a national icon and one for a very good friend. It’s funny they have both led very different lives but for each of them their faith was at their core and their lives were a model of love and justice. Both had big funerals and will be greatly mourned.
It really struck how true it is that the measure of a man or a woman is not in the things we have or the skills we develop or the sport we play or the place we live the measure can only be in the relationships we develop we have. It was humbling in both cases to hear the time each of these people had taken to be part of other people’s lives.
They had their priorities right: it is people, it is people, it is people. Echoes of Matthew 25:31-46 ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these; you did not do it to me.
It really struck how true it is that the measure of a man or a woman is not in the things we have or the skills we develop or the sport we play or the place we live the measure can only be in the relationships we develop we have. It was humbling in both cases to hear the time each of these people had taken to be part of other people’s lives.
They had their priorities right: it is people, it is people, it is people. Echoes of Matthew 25:31-46 ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these; you did not do it to me.
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