COMMENT &ANALYSIS: THOUGHT for the DAY.

THERE is a place for faith at the centre of our lives. The reason is that it speaks to something essential in the human condition.

There will always be things that science cannot explain, the beauty of Mozart, the power of a Shakespearean sonnet, the courage of a Lincoln, the point of a joke, the tenderness of love between mother and child, the feeling we have when someone recognises us and smiles.

These are worlds brought into being by the freedom of the human spirit. They can never be captured in the language of cause and effect, stimulus and response.

Nor are these private worlds' we share them, most of the time.

Though they rise from and create responses in individual minds, they find expression in the languages of speech, music, humour, art. Through them our personhood meets other persons and forms relationships of understanding and trust. In the possibility of communication we are not alone.

It is here in the mystery and majesty of the personal, that the Almighty lives. He is always with us, we are never alone.

Rev H Vicar of St Luke, Walton