Today's Sunday School led service was great fun (even if two of my ideas for next week are very similar to two of those today!) and included a moment of deep thinking for me.
At one stage we asked to think about a gift we would like to give to someone real or fictional, living or dead, if we could give them absolutely anything.
I sat for a few moments unable to think of anyone or anything. Then began a rendition of 'In The Bleak Midwinter' on a French horn, one of the few pieces of Christmas music that really pierces my soul. And so it did, I suddenly found myself thinking of the gift I'd love to be able to give, and the person I'd give it to... each utterly impossible. I wanted to give to L (as representative of many women I've known and still know) a cure for secondary breast cancer. It was pie in the sky, wishful thinking, bad theology probably, but it was so.
I am so grateful to Sunday School for creating a safe space for me to dream an impossible dream, and express something I didn't even know I needed to express.
One day there will be a cure. One day L and others like her will live long, full, happy lives. Until then, in my prayers, my awareness raising, my peer support and my charitable giving I'll go on doing what I can to bring 'one day' a little nearer.