[Magdalen] Life's blessings

[Marion Thompson]

The last day or so has brought news of deaths, some closer than others, 
one being our student spiritual adviser at Trinity, a fine elderly man 
who was firmly in my corner and even wrote to the Bishop to protest my 
rejection.  Anyway,   these things raise the ghosts.  So this morning 
seeing on FB that a classmate will be an assessor at ACPO pressed my 
buttons, even as I was lifting her in prayer.  I have an awful lot of 
unfinished business tucked away behind my defences and this one got past me.

What a blessing then, to be toddling along to the Rectory for Morning 
Prayer, a new introduction, just the three of us at this point, and 
HAVING to carry on regardless of snotty nose and tears which overflowed 
unbidden.  The best medicine.   I am beyond grateful for the presence of 
our priest and his partner, and the twist in life that has brought me to 
this.

Marion, a pilgrim   ... todayt my sail I lift ....