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2007/8/27

I went to church on Sunday.

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@ 02:00 PM (15 months, 15 days ago)

Those that read my blog will know that I am not a church goer, but  Sunday was special.

The minister, Rev David Colman, was holding his last service before moving to his new church, The United Reform Church, in Brighton.

I first came into contact with David in January 2003. Sarah, my wife, had been in the Hospice for a few days, we knew that she had very little time left and I wanted her home in her own house.

Each evening, while in the hospice, the visiting Priest had called in and said a prayer with Sarah and I noticed how this helped, Sarah believed implicitly in the afterlife.

Sarah came back home towards the end of January.

We had had no contact with any of the churches in our town, but a neighbour, a church regular, mentioned Sarah to his minister, and David Coleman appeared the next evening.

Each evening David would call and spend a little time alone, talking to Sarah, until the evening when Sarah passed away, a quarter of an hour before he arrived.

All of our family were there plus Sarah's sister, the two nurses that called in twice a day and the doctor, David held a short service at Sarah's bedside.

David helped us in arranging Sarah's funeral, selecting the music and hymns, and took the service both in the church and at the crematorium.

During this period David was also looking after his two children and supporting his wife who was receiving chemotherapy, I only discovered this later.

I tried to regularly attend church each Sunday, and kept it up for a while, but I stopped going. My only contact with the church since then has been to supply flowers for the Sunday service on the anniversary of Sarah's birth and death, these flowers are given to sick or ailing members of the church on the Monday.

I am not religious, I would like to believe but I do not.

The Rev David Colman is a real man of God. Today I thanked him and told him so.

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