{"id":12261,"date":"2017-11-23T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=12261"},"modified":"2017-11-23T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T07:00:30","slug":"and-that-will-be-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2017\/11\/23\/and-that-will-be-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"And that will be heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like the sunflower<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There are visitors in the house right now – emissaries from my beloved church family at Newbury Baptist Church.<\/a> Last week they stood tall in the church – testament to the love which brought them there, and arranged them so beautifully. Now they stand in the house, breaking up this grief-mist like shafts of sunlight through a dusty room.<\/p>\n

They had another function this time last week, too.\u00a0 Their role was to act as a visual backdrop to Evangeline Patterson’s poem ‘And that will be heaven’<\/em> – read out at the thanksgiving service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below is a picture of one of my bright emissaries, and the poet’s words. Click the image to read the poem.
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