This morning at Church we thought about what it must have meant to the Christians in Aberfan when, on this day (Sunday October 23rd) in 1966 they gathered for worship after a generation of the village's children had been buried in the catastrophe that was marked in its anniversary on Friday.
Who can imagine what that felt like? We can't.
But we thought about a man who did - Kenneth Hayes, the Baptist pastor of its Chapel. One of his two sons had died that awful morning and he led his remaining congrtegation on that shocking Sunday.
You can read about it here.
In this darkest of experiences the light was the great promise of God's word:
'What can separate us from the love of God? I am certain that nothing can separate us from the love of God, neither death nor life, neither angels or other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the future..."
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