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Welcome to the Anglican Parish of St Andrews Wimbledon
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I am Santos, I serve as the vicar here. It has been said that human beings can live for 40 days without food
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3 days without water and up to 8 minutes without hair, but for only one second without hope
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Hope has power to lift a weary soul. as we rightly commemorate those who sacrificed their lives in the cause of war and freedom
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We can't but remember the darkness in our world. Darkness not just in the past, but even here in the present
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Where can hope be found? In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, we hear these stunningly beautiful words
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And God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes
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There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away
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In The Lord of the Rings, when Sam sees Gandalf alive, he explains, Gix claims
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Gandalf, I thought you were dead. But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue
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The Christian story doesn't end with war and disease and death. It ends in a new world where God is with his people forever
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personally wiping away all tears no more funerals or physios or ambulances or undertakers why
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because the former things of this mortal existence have passed away it's quite a claim isn't it
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but if it's true you can see why it provides an unshakable hope
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even in the darkness for we know that one day everything sad really will come untrue
