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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Anne Easter

Good morning!

I wonder how you’re feeling about tomorrow? Are you getting excited, looking forward to seeing the great, once in a lifetime spectacle of the Coronation as our new King and Queen are crowned? Maybe you’re planning to be here in London, among the crowd, cheering and singing, or perhaps you’ll be putting up the bunting and getting out the tables for a street party or a family get together to mark this great occasion.

But, whatever our take on it, for King Charles and Queen Camilla I’m sure it will be a major turning point in their lives and a day they’ll remember for ever.

Royal or not, I think we all experience those corner-turning days, whether they are the special events planned for years like weddings, retirements and graduations, as well as those days that take us by surprise, those unplanned, life events; they may be fantastic – we win an award or we meet the love of our life – or they may be horrible, those life-shattering days when someone goes out of our lives, by death or design, leaving us shocked and confused.

It helps me to know that God has promised always to be with us, even in the valley of the shadow of death, and that, although we may well be too busy to think of anything else, God will be there thinking of us.

Jacob Astley, the 1st Baron of Reading prayed in 1642, ‘Oh Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.’ Lord Jesus, remember me and be with me, whatever life brings, today.

Amen