Well, what can I say? It is over! People have been so very generous, and we've raised over £360 for Christian Aid. That translates into a month's food for more than FIFTY families! So thankyou.
The justgiving link will be active for a few more weeks.
My final day was pretty weird. To be honest, I was feeling rather ill, and finding it pretty hard to think about anything positively, apart from the impending breaking of the fast!
And so it has taken me quite a while to digest that final day.
One of the things that struck me was just how lucky I am that this...
... as if by magic, three times a day turns itself into this:
It is something so many of us take completely for granted, the idea that at regular intervals we will have somewhere safe where we will eat food and be satisfied.
And yet, the Church of England has this year opened a record number of food banks... IN THE UK! Stories are emerging of parents going without food for days so that their children can eat.
Over the past days this is how I have been praying: for those I brush shoulders with in the street, who may even come and share at my table here at the friary, who don't know where their next meal is coming from.
Father,
Thankyou for the riches of our society.
Open our eyes to the poverty that exists within it.
To the people who subsist within it,
And show me how I can share my riches with them.
I don't even know where to start.
Yeah, it has taken a while to work out how to say that.
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