Canterbury

Sometimes I think that in the United Kingdom we live in our history and the present is not as important to us as it should be
but there are times when we get it just right. A few weeks ago we were with friends in Kent and spent a day in Canterbury -
and there in this most mind blowing of ancient cathedrals we saw this very simple shrine to Thomas a Becket one time Archbishop
of Canterbury who was murdered in the cathedral in December 1170. The building is vast and very lovely with elaborate memorials to
people who have served the church over the past thousand years or more and there in the midst of all the splendour is
a simple candle forever lit and the word THOMAS - placed on the spot where he lay dying.
It is very moving and perhaps the simple way many of us would want to be remembered by the people who love us -
perhaps not for more than 800 years though.