Our Gospel this week (Luke 13.1-9) is all about God not giving up on people when it looks like their lives are condemned failure or sin or whatever it may be. On Wednesday of last week, I had the honour of attending a private view of a new exhibition put on by The Lived Experience Collective at the Primeyarc Gallery in the Market Gates shopping centre. The artists are all formerly homeless people. And I had a chance to talk with a few of them. They are incredible people! People who have struggled with perhaps some of the most difficult problems any person can struggle with – who have been cast out on the streets and condemned – but who have managed to transform their lives with the help of those who would not give up on them.
I left full of hope, the hope of the Gospel that calls all of us to repentance and new life!
Rev Richard
