Moving On

At the graveside of William and Catherine Booth - founders of The Salvation Army, at a place called Abney Park.

If you look at the background you'll see that there is a lot of foliage - nothing at all like the cemeterys I'm used to visiting. But this cemetery 'went broke' a number of years ago, and the local council now have control of and responsibility for the land, and it has been designated as a woodland. So the trees and bushes are just allowed to grow, and will eventually overtake the thousands of tombs and headstones - in fact most already have.

Some of my colleagues were shocked. A place of burial of such significant people - how could this be?

But you know, the more I read of the Booths, the more I'm persuaded that rather than have us spend time and energy on their graves, they'd prefer us to be spending our time and energy in the mission field. One day their grave will disappear under foliage. Let's pray and work to ensure that their legacy never disappears.