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PROCESSION. is a strong word that does not have to be limited by ideas of dry process or conformist following on. It can also speaks of a wonderful way of moving forward, in the company of others, to something splendid. The journey itself is fascinating, stimulating, sometimes very hard. But it is all getting somewhere : there is a purpose. There is a great sentence in Tom Stoppard's play 'Arcadia' which says; "We shed and we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it" Here are some images and words that reflect this idea One verse in the 'OMF hymn' (words by Frank Houghton) says : We bear the torch that flaming Fell from the hands of those Who gave their lives proclaiming That Jesus died and rose Ours is the same commission The same glad message ours Fired by the same ambition To Thee we yield our powers In this praedella, the horses lend an inevitability of the procession moving towards Calvary. However the people and the energy pull backward and forward. Only Christ faces us. This photo was taken at Curbar Edge in the Peak District. Here are the new generation of the family dancing forward across the hills into the future. What a wonderful free procession they make. Cezanne, in his inimitable way, invites us to make a procession through the avenue of trees to the distant light. Even if we are alone at the moment, others will come as others have gone before. And finally, apparently Queen Elizabeth II had a fondness for an aboriginal proverb :
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow. to love...and then we return home.
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