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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Canon Ann Easter

Good morning

Just five hundred and thirty-three years ago today, Christopher Columbus set sail from the Canary Islands. I think he’d have a huge entourage of ships, men and supplies and that he’d have spent ages before that date, planning his journey. He hoped to find a new route to Asia, not realising that there was a huge continent in the way! Christopher missed Florida because he changed course a bit and landed instead on one of the islands we now know as the Bahamas. But of course, that was just the beginning of a whole new exploration.

They do say ‘If you want to make God laugh, tell God your plans’ and how often have I made all sorts of grand plans, only to find them turned on their heads in a way I couldn’t possibly have imagined.

A passionate fan of the film ‘The sound of Music’, keen choir member and pianist, before I was married, I planned that my children – would be just like the Von Trapp family, all dressed in the same little outfits, made out of old curtains, singing in sweet harmony around me.

Well, there are three children and they all love music but my daughter sings only in the shower; son number one has made a living out of something called Drum’n’Bass – quite a long and very noisy way from the sweet arias I envisaged and son number two plays the drums with a rock band in his spare time.

Lord God, Support us when our plans don’t work out the way we hoped and help us to make the most of the new route you offer.

Amen.