The bombs fall close to home
On my way up to the York Synod on Friday, the news started to come through that Revd Julie Nicholson, who is vicar of a nearby church in Bristol and someone I taught at Trinity, had lost contact with her daughter Jenny, who works in London, on the day of the bombs. At that time, the story hadn’t broken the press, but now it is in the public domain I can make mention of it here. Jenny was on her daily trip from home in Reading to work, when she would have passed through Paddington station, onto the underground system, through to Edgware Road station. She is now among the ‘missing’ and the family await to hear the worst. Please pray for Julie, her husband Greg and Jenny’s brother and sister in this time of agony. Julie and I have been planning to host a youth arts theatre project this winter at St Paul’s, one of my churches. Two weeks ago we were sitting drinking coffee together and talking about a future, which now seems so blighted.
Update: The formal identification process finished today with the news everyone had feared. The BBC report is here. The diocese is handling the press coverage, so hopefully there won’t be too much by way of press intrusion on the family’s grief. Julie’s church are holding a prayer vigil tomorrow night. We’re running the silence in church at Cotham tomorrow at noon, just over a week after Jenny’s life was ended so abruptly and with such violence.
Posted on Wednesday, 13 July 2005 by Paul | Posted in uncategorized | 1 comment
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Oh..I’m so sorry. Thus far, every story I’ve heard which began like this had a happy ending; clearly they couldn’t all have. We’ll pray specially for Jenny, and for her family…may she rest in peace and rise in glory.
