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Thoughts on faith

Solidarity forever!

3/18/2020

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When I was a young man the miner's strike was on the news every evening. I had not come from a working class background, no one in my family had been in a union and I had the most limited understanding of what went on in a strike. It became clear to me that this strike was about a whole community engaged in trying to save the jobs they relied on. Years later I watched Billy Elliot the musical with the amazing song solidarity forever.

Now I understand what it feels like for a whole community to struggle together, to share fears and anxieties, to try and support one another and make sure we all know that we have each others backs. We do not know how long this period of self isolation and social distancing will last. We do know that to get through it we need to care for each other and support each other, in the words of Billy Elliot, Solidarity forever! 
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    Patrick Jordan

    I am the Vicar of St Matthews. I am also passionately interested in Mental Health and faith and will be blogging about faith, Thorpe Hamlet and Mental health.

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