{"id":100654,"date":"2021-03-24T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=100654"},"modified":"2021-03-24T06:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T10:22:59","slug":"archbishop-justin-welbys-reflection-on-radio-4s-thought-for-the-day-on-the-first-anniversary-of-the-uks-national-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=100654","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Justin Welby&#8217;s reflection on Radio 4&#8217;s Thought For The Day on the first anniversary of the UK&#8217;s national lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great songs of lament to God in the bible begins \u201cby the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept.\u201d. An anniversary is a time to lament, to mourn, to sit and weep for what could have been and is not. Pause for a while today, remember what has been lost, above all who has been lost. Lament &#8211; for to do so is to honour and treasure. As a Christian I follow and love Jesus Christ who loved and mourned his friends, his country, suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Anniversaries are also moments of new beginnings. It is just a day. But it is also a moment. And one of the signs of being human &#8211; of being spiritual as well as material &#8211; is that we make moments that pass into moments of significance. The anniversary calls on us to ask where we are going?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/speaking-writing\/speeches\/archbishop-justin-radio-4-thought-day\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018An anniversary is a time to lament, to mourn, to sit and weep for what could have been and is not. Pause for a while today, remember what has been lost, above all who has been lost.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThoughtForTheDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ThoughtForTheDay<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCr4today?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCR4today<\/a> this morning:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6FmEiIs4fx\">https:\/\/t.co\/6FmEiIs4fx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Archbishop of Canterbury (@JustinWelby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinWelby\/status\/1374338961515147267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great songs of lament to God in the bible begins \u201cby the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept.\u201d. An anniversary is a time to lament, to mourn, to sit and weep for what could have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=100654\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,67,438,199,104,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100656,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100654\/revisions\/100656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}